I wish...

Through the thoughts I keep inside of me
I wish I could explain fears and desires.
Yet when I write the words, I see
That with a failure to translate my mind conspires.
Rendering sentences unintelligible,
Leaving reason feeling gullible.

To sleep tonight without misguided dreams.
Outside of sleep, your mirage I can only air-kiss.
In the depths of my desires, reality cleans
The lens of my hopes so for you to notice me I wish.

When I picture the image that you are to my imagination
I realise that you do not exist, that you are a token
Of sanity to help me remain patient
While diving without oxygen once more into the ocean.

Tired of drowning surrounded by beautiful fish
Which do not notice my descent.
So for obscurity and not oxygen I wish
As for my hopes and desires I repent.


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