Identity

 

I feel the pain of Tantalus

Deep within my breast

Those cruel pangs of agony

Torture without rest.

Sisyphus did heave

The stone upto the top

Just when he thought that he had won

Down again it dropped.

Cinderella's fateful night

Her destiny star crossed.

When in her prince's arm she danced

In a moment all was lost.

I dreamt , I dreamt, a long lost dream

A long lost hope, and it did seem

I 'd  live to see the day.

But Fate played me a nasty trick,

From a distance the rose seemed to bloom

But in my hands the thorns did prick

My dream condemned to doom.

I had asked him for a rainbow

To colour all our dreams

But he took all my hues away

Only his own shades held sway

Monochromatic beams

In that impenetrable grey

Those impervious nebulae

Such a weight lay on my heart

His soul consumed me part by part

Rose petals lay on the ground

Shrivelled up, all dry and brown

The colours from my dreams now drain

I'll never dare to dream again.