The Dreams It Took Poem by Daniel Richards

Twinkle Twinkle so far away,
Lights ahead with galaxies encased
With my dreams they hold as prey

Taken when I lay in slumber,
Now never do I dream, forever I wander

Alone inside adrift with pain
Praying for just one day without the rain
Its blue inside, darker on the out

Just forget me I’m not coming out,
I distain, forever inside I shall remain

In my sleep I shall walk
For in my dreams I live
But they have been stolen with all I had to give

Without my dreams I cannot be
The turmoil I witnessed and so often see
Is pain enough,
But to be without my dreams
Alone I’ll drift out among the seas
A painful bliss, so seldom felt
I remain here, a tear, hoping for help

Do I trace the dreams I long to return, or,
Do I contain myself in the hollow ecstasy of clear minded disconcern?