Dreams by Austin Akins

As I sit in a room full of empty faces all with the same empty dreams,

I want to be anywhere but here…to do anything but this.

And as seconds turn to minutes, and minutes to hours,

I realize how much time is wasted, how much is thrown away.

These seconds cannot be recycled, these minutes not replaced.

And as I continuously repeat the monotony of every day life,

I can’t seem to relinquish this undying desire…

The desire to do something more…the crave to be something great…

This hope to be part of something larger than life is the force that pushes us to attempt what society has taught us to be impractical.

It’s truly incredible to think that human emotion can push us to insanity, can drive us to exceed our own natural limits.

But as an outsider criticizes this impossible dream, they hypocritically waste time pursuing nothing –

Accepting what is and cannot be changed.

As a child, my parents always told me, “You can be anything you want to be.”

If it is imaginable, it is possible

And modern hypocrisy mixed with the cynical views of this secular world kill life as we know it today…

Satisfaction is internal death…Acceptance is emotional demise…

In a world where nothing is ours and all can be taken away in the blink of any eye,

One must learn not to cling to what they have but let go of their personal possessions and strive for progression.

In a world where no one stays young and few die that way…

In a world where it is socially unacceptable to hope and to dream…

I don’t want to die brittle and a cynic…

I don’t want to die old and alone…

I don’t want to die without the most precious gift of God – spiritual youth.

It is our right given at birth to the pursuit of happiness and to give up this right is to give up life.

I want to die striving for the impossible…past the realistic…

I want to die reaching for the same stars as when I was young…

I want to die…chasing a dream…