dreams and dragons

if you turn the kaleidoscope into a slate
and watch the angle as all the darlings
fall in love with the moments want to be
and the floor you're dancing on in a small
town bar is the future highlight of your life

watch the sparks fly as they hide in the glint
of their lovers eyes, youth was a compromise
forget what must die to keep that love perfectly
alive
and the beauty that we make just prays for sleep
on sunless days
and pretty words grow roots and strangle
all that silence won't erase

we'll have conversations in future living rooms
we'll build our dreams from lights of promise
and we will never go
to where we can't see the light of glory
in the eyes of a dream that lived

we'll take steps of grace
but we will never concede
we'll believe because we breathe
and we'll fight through the pain
because we're alive

everything on the line
misdirection is unimagined and
our whitewashed dreams turn into dragons