The Dream Denied by robin-sparrow, literature
Literature
The Dream Denied
Steel groans, shrieking metallically
as maiden voyage dreams
bend and break
beneath the heavy burden
of the practicality of death.The serenity of the glassy sea
ripples, shatters
into a thousand glittering broken lives,
smashed by the heavy-handed fists
of tragedy and fate,
while the white mountain of doom
stands tall, proud, unapologetic
in the distance.Above, the stars burst,
their light fragmented beyond repair,
rent apart by the screams of the lost
and the dream denied.Yet threaded through the chaos,
music like one last hope
(which sounds like morning larks
or a familiar voice in a panicked crowd)
is sewn into the straining seams of re...
