Locked Up In My Fantasies

Locked up in my fantasies
Aware of my unawareness
Softly indulging in my pleasant decay
Falling into the trap of loneliness
In an existence deprived of love and delight
My desires and fantasies became the only salvation

I knew not how long I’d been locked up in my realm
Lovely dreams visited my feeble slumber
On the silent nights, protected by the shadows of ghosts
Waiting for some fallen luminary to glimmer sparkles toward me
I lingered through eternity
In the darkness of my mind

Confused and dismayed I wandered in my loneliness
Starving delight and merriment
As I was doomed to a cruel and infamous fate
Nothing I could have accomplished to change the course of occurrences
I was chained to a sinking boat
While hearing the screams of spirits haunting me

Until my very last day of existence
The infamous tyranny to which I had been enslaved, had disposed of my life
My heart was crumbled to dust of decay
My body was the representation of dread and abuse
Time was not anymore the master of my life
As I became part of the realm of the dead

The sun no longer shone upon me
Instead, the tempestuous clouds obscured all the stars
Leaving me sightless for the deep obscurity of the night
I was not anymore aware of my lugubre surroundings
Trapped within my own nightmares
Disregarded by the world outside

I floated into an endless silence
Each gust was a sigh fading in the void
I sought fragments of my sparkling and fleeting dreams
Where once there was love, now only shadows had remained
My mind had become a labyrinth of dead fantasies
I stumbled through the graveyard of shadows

Chasing glimmers of elation I could never grasp
As each vision slipped away like grains of sand
The cold embrace of solitude came to be my only companion
While I longed for the glimmer of a flame that would never ignite
The wicked claws of my destiny held me captive
Tugging at the fabric of my fragile hope

I still lingered in the darkest of prisons
Where even the faintest flicker of rebellion was obliterated
In the end, I was nothing but a fading star
Falling from the sky of my own illusions
To be swallowed entirely by the noiseless abyss of darkness
I was locked up in my fantasies, made of void and oblivion
Where my dreams dissolved into nothingness.
Elisabetta