Something Came In the Night

Deep in the night, in the well of my dreams I'm here all alone, and the silence is long... I'm engulfed by old songs and memories of the life never lived, the words never said, the fears that grow strong, the things I might dread, and the stories unread There's a whirlwind of dust which blows through my head Perhaps this is slumber and I wear a new face Shades of a fire, and the smoke of the night Have shadowed the things that are real, maybe not Tomorrow I'll wake, with the first breath of dawn I'll wipe the slate clean, start all over again Rewrite all the pages, I never began Take a road never taken, that waving mirage as seen through the mist, where always, it's been I have been a young child, afraid of the dark There's a fork in the road, I am playing new parts Something came in the night, something sparked a new flame Heroic and fearless, ........I will wake with the day I will find a new trail that will show me the way I'll not bend like the trees bowing over in wind I'll not bend like the wheat strands, or the flames of the fire Standing tall in the light, I will feel a new me I will feel a new power, to be me, .... just be me! ___________________________________________ For the contest sponsored by Verlena Walker 10/26/14