Building a life on cotton candy dreams smells of the circus and carnival rides Exuberant children in tousled sheets Doing untrained acrobatics on a highwire of hope
Melted sugar nightmares crash without a net Eyes burn in the stench of memories and laughter Wearing that broken wire like a decade old prom dress Wishing pieces of that life didn't still smell so sweet Making everything sour by comparison
Ever wary of the remote reminiscence of laughter and the exuberance of children Flesh torn by that highwire gown Whenever someone smells of the circus and carnival rides