The Fear of Insignificance

Death and the Dream

Beyond control my heart’s desire
Burns inside as I’m on fire:
As flames flicker and vapors vanish, I for a dream do yearn,
But through this icy world, I fear I’ll fail to burn.

Just another unnamed star
Afloat beyond the darkness far:
Forever I wait with mortal pain
With hope to in an instant wane
From where the light does not reflect –
From where, so numbed, the warmth I can’t detect.

So young am I, it seems,
To perish with a dream
That lies but steps into the morrow,
Where I, alone, shall fall and reap no sorrow