Break

Your frustrations are left

Like too many

Broken promises

Strewn about the floor

But I’ll just keep using

The same tired dreams

That are too worried

To try anymore

Flower

I try to sing to you

So sweetly

But you've just been

Blooming

In all the wrong

Places

Galaxies

You don't have to hate

The orbit of the pond

Just because you want to swim

In the cosmic river

Scream

We were just ghosts

Drifting

Trying to tell each other

What could be

Real

And what could be

Nothing

Crisis

You've been looking

Far too long

To let the dread

Of letting go

Defeat you

Speak

You're always

At a loss for

Words

But then again

You've been

Silenced

By the act of

Merely living

 Compartmentalizing

How are you supposed to find

The way it all fits into you

When you don't even know

How you fit into yourself

Flying

You were the only one

The bee without the stripes

So we shared the same coat

Because you were only

Passing through

Lucid

I'm sure I've said it before

But my reality is always so sadly

Lost in dreams

The potential stories that lie there

Squandered in the confusion

Of sleep

Trapped

It isn't what’s out there

It's what’s in here

In the deepest recesses

It's all the same

In the end

It's what the mind makes of it

That matters

After all

Sara Grainger

Sara is a graduate of both Nipissing and Ryerson Universities. Since completing two post-secondary programs apparently wasn’t enough for her, she is also currently in the second year of the Professional Writing Program at Algonquin. When not making every attempt to avoid the 9-5 lifestyle, she can be found testing the waters of musicianship, binge watching any genre of television you can think of (as long as it’s worthwhile) and pretending to be good at video games. She is also passionate about animal welfare and loves spending time with her Chihuahua mix Tula and cat Oki.