MY MIRAGES

I

 It's not that nothing

in this world

was meant for me,

it's that I reached

for them anyway,

and others paid

for these mirages of mine

with their happiness

and their lives.

That spawned the pain

which wrecks

these worthless days.

If only I would have

stept aside and left them be,

but wishes are my mirages.

II

I should have remembered

the knowledge I once had,

and faced the rising tide,

let it come and others live,

let them live and be,

not pay for mirages of mine.

I should, I should,

but wanted an another role,

not be the meek who stands aside,

and so others paid,

and pain now wrecks

my worthless days.

I wish I would

have left them be,

but wishes are my mirages.

III

Let others live,

and let the tide

come,

don't be a thief

of their hope,

step aside,

let them sail

with dreams intact

to some other,

better fate,

never wasting

a thought

for you,

facing the tide

alone.

05.12.2022

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