"Dreams"

My hearts been broken many times

That I’m running out of rhymes

And I’ve broken a few when I was still healing

When my mind was still reeling

But no matter how many times it breaks

No matter how invested or the stakes

It always hurts just as bad

I’m always just as sad

Someone once told me…

“don’t have hopes, expectations, or dreams

And you won’t be disappointed”

But I’m still a fool

I hope dreams will meet expectations

And I’m always disappointed

There’s the one who drove me to drink

My sanity to the brink

And the one who showed me drugs and life of excess

Another failed success

I wonder what I always do so wrong

Have I always made mistakes for so long

You’d think by now that I’d give up

But I can’t just give up

Someone once told me…

“don’t have hopes, expectations, or dreams

And you won’t be disappointed”

But I’m still a fool

I hope dreams will meet expectations

And I’m always disappointed

Here I am climbing another mountain

I keep telling myself not to expect anything

But I know when I get thrown back down

It will return, that all too familiar pain

Someone once told me…

“don’t have hopes, expectations, or dreams

And you won’t be disappointed”

But I’m still a fool

I hope dreams will meet expectations

And I’m always disappointed

…Clinging on to dreams

All I end up with are dreams