Exquisite.

The Girl in the Body of a Dream

I don’t even know why I returned -

All this place has ever done is burn.

Passing lights and exit signs,

As time flies, I do wonder why?

Did I think it would be any different,

To count on nostalgia to erase all of those long-found memories…

And it just doesn’t feel the same;

It’s a place to which I no longer have a claim.

Stuck in between the right end of the middle,

Will I ever solve this riddle?

Will I end up like the rest…

Without a place to rest my head.

Because I can’t bring myself to call it home,

And right now I’m feeling more and more alone.

All the months that I’ve been gone

And now I wake up alone each dawn.

And still I question myself,

All of the choices I’ve made.

Was it right for me to go

Or was it wrong for me to stay?

And it just doesn’t feel the same;

It’s a place to which I no longer have a claim.

Stuck in between the right end of the middle,

Will I ever solve this riddle?

Regrets, memories, the best of times -

I cut my ties to this old place.

And coming back,

I feel long gone,

It feels all wrong.

Bittersweet, sour on my tongue

Perhaps I feel wrong because I’m so young.

But, no – I’m far beyond my years.

Those tears were growing tears

And I, I was caught in between

Lost for being never seen -

A girl in the body of a dream.