The End of Dreamland
\nVCS <\/p>\n
The End of Dreamland
\nFaded
\nA roller coaster plunging
\nInto the mists of oblivion
\nPlaced by a cruel prankster
\nCollecting tickets
\nLaughing at the joke
\nSee the rubes pay the toll
\nThe tolls set to the price
\nIt’s only your soul!
\nThat Dreamland is more nightmare
\nThan laughter and love
\nEmaciated skeletons
\nDancing through a distorted utopia
\nA world that never was
\nNever would be
\nNever could be
\nThank all the gods above
\nThat soap bubbles irridescent sheens
\nare
\nAs fragile as the egos gathered
\nAround the casting couch
\nof ghouls and gangsters
\nthe denizens of dreamland
\nthe nightmare curse <\/p>\n
I woke up one day
\nThe dream was over
\nThe sun played off the motes
\nThe broken hopes left behind
\nThe splintered edifices
\nMade of plaster of paris
\nLeft to rot in the desert
\nGiant sphinxes
\nViolet eyed Cleopatras <\/p>\n
It was all a dream
\nA lost city
\nLess real than silicon
\nMore dubious than Atlantis
\nOr Lemuria
\nIt was all a dream
\nNow we’re back from dreamland
\nReality
\nSuch as it is
\nIs better than the rotten shrouds
\nWe tried to cover ourselves in <\/p>\n
Soap bubbles pop
\nRoller coasters plunge
\nDreams finish
\nNightmares die<\/p>\n
Awaken to
\nReality
\nSuch as it is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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