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Daydreams (the winds have changed)

She stared into the distance
  beyond my beating heart;  
     invisible in the forefront of her dreams  
   
we are lost in the moments left behind  
   as sands of time turn ashes into dust  
       stripping dusty details from the surfaces  
   
   
   past peels the paint from the playhouse walls    
  without the slightest effort at all  
   
 whether the weather weathers them more  
         or the weight of the world pulls the walls to the floor  
   
                 time tells the tale that we can't tell ourselves  
                       as we gaze through the shade of the worlds on our shelves  
   
               that we create and destroy behind half-closed eyes  
   
                                                                  as nostalgia steals the time from our unlived lives.  
   
   
                                                lazily     lying    our     lives   away   under   our  own   breath  
   
                                                               as   we    dazily   daydream   our    days   away    to     death
Written by sammy4444
Published | Edited 10th Feb 2020
Author's Note
In the moment it can be easy to overlook the passions you have for life when focusing on goals in the future. Memories fade even when we spend our days nostalgically reliving them as we try to hold on to what made the memory special. I've spent countless moments reaching forward and clinging backward to bigger and better times and only lost the moment I was missing out on. I've been focusing on this concept for quite some time now (I do see the irony) and am trying to get more from the moments I'm in. It's not always easy but it's been a good experience. Enjoy.
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