ALL THAT WE ADORE

All that we adore
Is lost forever more
All that we own
Is all we've ever know.

There is hope for hopeless
But there is nothing less.
We're finding our redemption
Is nothing more than another temptation.

Screams come forth eternally
from silent lips that move uselessly.
The blind shall see, the deaf shall hear
but what sounds close isn't really so near.

Fish jump in the sky
darting behind clouds as they pass by.
Beneath your feet stars spin in oblivion
representing that beautiful nothing you insist on living in.

Mermaid in the pool
Turns out she's just another tool
to lead you to your failure
Ignore the temptation, turn away from her.

This seems so real,
Would your mind really steal
Random bits of fact and fiction
To create this grand illusion?

Is this a hallucination?
Your own created nation
Full of traps and bribes and temptations?
Are you free of emulation?

Paradise can be hell
after only a few steps you fell.
Crying out as you hit the ground
but no one else heard a sound.

You reach out to touch her body
such a lithe and curving beauty.
She vanishes in a whisp of smoke
you failed the test before she even spoke.

You're running away so fast,
Traps being set, bait is the ghosts of your past.
Every thought, all your dreams
are being used for evil schemes.

In a world surreal
you come to heal
but your scars reopen
and you bleed again.

So fast can a dream become a nightmare,
So quickly the one you want isn't there.
Thoughts become traps; wishes are bait
you wish to escape before it's too late.

You cover in the corner
shivering in terror.
Do you still want your dreams to come true?
I wouldn't wish it if I were you.

Is this surreal
or is this so real?