dreams – mimimusing

Out of sight, out of mind Out of dreams Yet you keep coming back In between. Meanwhile, I've never grown up I like the wooden benches as if they are things to be loved Time is only present and nothing beyond You are there, to be loved And lost I am there, I don't wish I am not. Were we affectionate, like we could have been? But I loved you so, if only You could have seen. If only, if ever. Some regrets last forever Did I promise to name my child after your favourite hero Did you promise me you'll go wherever I go? I know we did not, I never thought we needed to promise My small mind never looked past the present, Naïve enough to think we would always be. That's what little girls think, That's what big girls dream. A thousand ghosts look like you I dream of them, and I don't know how to stop You have died long ago, it seems It's not really you, in my dreams Yet, out of sight, not out of mind You crop up in between.

Let’s get lost in the city.
We can’t count the stars
Because the smoky clouds have won.
We have lost-
Ourselves
But not our dreams, not yet.
Your eyes have all the stars I need
My dreams are all yours,
Let’s paint our passions together
Into a pretty rainbow
And the smog will be lifted.

The city is sometimes so grey
Straight lines,
Boxes…
Traps?
The skyline is mapped out in sharp angles
The round sunset is such a sight.
Let’s count the people,
How they speed up their lives.
Find leisure in a city dweller’s paradise.
No one seems to remember their dreams,
The dreams that drove them here.
Running for life, they run away,
Round and round in circles.
The watchful city smirks.

Exhausting landscapes and construction sites
Grow, grow, grow
Metropolitan giant,
Grow but don’t eat up our dreams.
I won’t look at the shabby alleys
The slums we pretend don’t exist
I swear I’ll gaze at the palacial malls
And forget the flaws of the city.

I was born here
I know how a city crushes someone’s hopes
While nurturing another’s.

Let’s get lost in this city again
Sacrificing our bodies and souls
To the urban gods
And maybe one day
The city will listen to us,
The city will care,
Embrace,
Love,
And the city will be all ours.

Tag: dreams

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