Take this from me — If it was ever mine Golden hours fall through my fingers Like light I cannot keep Every moment barely lingers Then sinks beneath my sleep I speak your name into the silence It answers back the same Is this devotion, or defiance? Or just a different frame? If I wake, do I awaken? Or just change the scene? Is this a dream within a dream? A fracture in between? I taste the truth — it slips unseen Like sand through what I mean Hold it tight, it pours away Nothing ever wants to stay If this is real, then tell me why It feels like goodbye It feels like goodbye The shoreline trembles at my feet The tide erases proof Every promise incomplete Every sky without a roof I close my fist around the hour But time is never caught It blooms for just a breath of power Then dissolves to thought If I scream into the night Will the world confirm I’m here? Or will I vanish from its sight Like something born of fear? What if love was just a seam Stitched into a fading theme? Is this a dream within a dream? A pulse without a heart? Every tear becomes a stream That pulls the self apart I try to stand, I try to stay But everything just drifts away If this is truth, then it would seem It’s just a dream within a dream
