A Place In Time

in the masquerading dawn sun rising slowly across the lawn all the dreams from the night before don’t really matter anymore coffee clears my foggy brain and those old thoughts that still remain warmed by rays of a new day cold to the bone by months of rain how do I sort out the truth? all that begins and ends with you am I all or just a place? a place that holds a tiny space you swear I am the only one been that way since we’ve begun you build on lines that worked before still ajar is the backdoor an ace stuck in a ticking spoke on the road to never ending hope too little pay for so much work a heart that hides a world of hurt