Just A Dream?

[jadnifer]

I would like your honest opinions about this poem guys. I wrote it quite quickly, but you can probably see the kind of mood that I was in when I wrote it.

JUST A DREAM???

Searching in the dark

I cannot find the lost souls

Of the children that have

Grown up too fast

They have no recollection

Of their childhood past

I see a child ahead

He looks at me

But his eyes are dead

No flame burning in his heart

No smile lighting up his face

He's stuck in this hell on Earth place

I must leave him behind

There is no saving him now

Even if I could

I'd have no idea how.

Im not really welcome here

There is no room for me

For I am an adult you see

This is where they come to hide

Where they can finally play outside.

I see a little girl in the distance

She runs away from me

I run faster for I must see

Her face and why she's in this horrible place

I catch her by the arm and

She startles in alarm

She turns around and by shock

I fall to the ground

Her hazel eyes and

Her long brown hair in disarray

Make me look and finally say,

"Why....?"

"SSH," she says, "you cannot ask,

"You are too old, the answers are past."

"The shadows on your life have already been cast."

That's when I open my eyes

It was all just a dream

A fiction in my mind is what it all seems

But in all reality

That little girl was me.