Darkness/Dreams Within the Cage

Sometimes

You dig a hole

To admire

The world you know you cannot see. 

Sometimes

Those you hate most

Are the ones you love

When they help you through. 

Darkness

In the world,

When you cannot seem

To look around,

Darkness

Where someone says,

It's okay now,

I will help you out. 

And you two walk along

A lonely path

Knowing only by the voice, no faces. 

Hand in hand,

Stargazing

Up at nothing,

Lying down

On blackened hills,

But then one day,

Your eyes both open,

And you look around

At your empty world

As the dark blank shadows

Turn to color,

You close your eyes,

For you want darkness still. 

For, you see

The biggest dreams come from the cage,

For, you see

The greatest joy comes from despair,

So you must simply lie,

Dreaming of the day you'll see the light...

Strolling

In the darkest corners,

Swinging hand in hand,

You lie down on the grassy fields

That you refuse to see,

For you see,

You are the birds in a cage,

Simply singing of the world you want to see,

But when you find it,

And look at all that wonder,

It takes your dream away. 

So dig a hole,

And make a cavern,

A world for you and me,

A cage for us to dream within,

The darkness where we see.