Lady Labyrinth Poet Free verse

The Hope Thieves

"The Hope Thieves"



Colours change chameleon fast

The Hope Thieves
steal dreams to make up
for their own lost lives and fast-draining
upside-down hour glass pasts

In their hearts a million silent cries
In their minds a million worlds collide

Lost, cunning and sly, they drink up pure essence of Hope and Trust
like blood sucking vampires patrolling the crowded underpasses and
the jungled overgrown potent gardens of trysting rose-glassed lovers and soothsaying sage-green poets
They exist as shadow people dark and full of shallow notes

In their lives a million reasons why
In their world all doors shut inside

They exist on the outside
Looking for the key to open their own home doors wide
Lost husbands and brides, petulant, deriding The Others, 
Ghosts of romantic scribes finding freedom in wide open Blue Skies

The Hope Thieves
steal dreams to make up 
for their own lost lives

Colours change chameleon fast



(LadyLabyrinth/2019)



https://youtu.be/rQiyyoLF05A
Emika/Take Me for a Ride



“Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.”



https://youtu.be/jG6s7W9yG_c
Emika/Mouth to Mouth



“The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.”

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