I Never Dare To Dream Poem by Elizabeth Hefty

Once I thought….
What did I think?  
Now I do not know.
A time when I had daydreams
Of a future.
I tried not,
Realism shook me like a child,
But they sometimes ran away from me,
As daydreams are wont to do.
But each day brought a little more tarnish to their gilt
Until all that was left was a dull memory of what once was.
A reminiscence of a future that never shall be.
And I tried to make it shine again, washed it with my tears
As it crumbled to dust in my hands.