Ghost of a Dream
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Hello ghost that haunts my dreams.
The one that lives and thrives on steam.
Some part of you will always breathe
And stream through my darkness,
Sheathed like Dante, for Bea.
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[Chorus]
When nightmares and shadows pulled chains around me.
I dreamed about you
And you dreamt of me.
Watching and waiting for what we could never be.
We walked through our slumbers, alone but not free.
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When you looked my way, I felt it.
In every graze of your hand, I melted.
The very gaze I denied, existed only in our minds.
Where torment and tension only climbed.
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With every whispered invite to attend,
And every careful moment we’d spend,
Always but nowhere in spaces close and so far bent
I’m haunted by memories I dared not to bar yet.
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[Chorus]
When nightmares and shadows pulled chains around me.
I dreamed about you
And you dreamt of me.
Watching and waiting for what we could never be.
We walked through our slumbers, alone but not free.
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Though I stalked the night,
And you graced the day,
When I close my eyes,
It’s your light that stays.
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I’ve tried to deny you,
For the claim to who binds you.
But the love we never shared, spoken or acted
Meant more to me than any false hope could have crafted.
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[Chorus]
When nightmares and shadows pulled chains around me.
I dreamed about you
And you dreamt of me.
Watching and waiting for what we could never be.
We walked through our slumbers, alone but not free.
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The wicked tricks of my mind stung deeper than time,
As your and my pacing never aligned.
The masks of our past holding fast in the last,
Binding the hearts in our chest to hold fast.
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Even though we never left that floor,
You’re a memory to my very core.
A ghost of a dream,
Who begged me to scream;
And the ember, who will always hold more.
© Desarae Damschen All rights Reserved
These lyrics are written from the perspective of the sinister protagonist of my novel. A man who is about to come face to face with a woman who makes his pledge to deny love all but impossible. When you want more, check out A Count Immoral.