I Lie

I lie…

Down with myself in the darkness

Unable to decipher the meaning of my life.

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I lie…

To myself just as I always have,

Pretending to be something I am not.

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I lie…

To others by hiding behind a mask and a smile,

Showing them what they want to see not who I am.

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I lie…

Everytime I deny my dreams their breath

Leaving them to choke in the pool of my mind.

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Is stifling our hopes and dreams truly living,

Making the unsatisfying our lifes work?

Were we not born to rise to our own vision of greatness

Not for financial gain alone, but for our God given passions sake?

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I lie…

But I am trying to bury my fears,

Trying to live the dreams that I was born to realize.

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

These Dreams I Still Have

These dreams I still have

Remnants of a misspent youth

Still push me onward

Unlike many of our young

Lost and wandering

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Have we been failures

Left to fend for themselves

Both parents labor

This unavoidable plague

With our children as victims

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Our culture has changed

Families expendable

Futures uncertain

Their dreams are left in tatters

If they ever had any

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These dreams I still have

Are for our children’s futures

Prosperous and full

As mine was when I was young

Not something left in the past

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~