This morning,
I fell from a dream
so bittersweet
that for a moment
I wanted to shut my eyes
and ***** my way back
to that make-believe paradise.

In there,
I had everything
I had once coveted
and some things
I never dared to desire.
Almost enough
to make me happy.

Dazed and delirious,
I still couldn’t help but notice -
Laughter there sounded hollow,
the gratification was never deep.
Splendid as things were,
they would last only while I was still asleep.

What good is a paradise
that can disappear in the blink of an eye?
The truth, though ordinary, always
outshines the most extraordinary lie.

Fact or fiction, there was a choice to be made;
Open my eyes and wake up or choose to be afraid.
It was easy to give up that land of whimsical fantasy,
To plunge back into the depths of  my sordid reality.