Kept Awake By Dreams Poem by Phil Soar

I'm kept awake by dreams that haunt my mind
Of memories, I thought I'd left behind
And when I wake, I have to catch my breath
The dreams I have now, scare me half to death

Parhaps a moment when I was a boy
Has left it's mark, and masked my childhood joy
And now that time affords my mind to think
It's like my thoughts now take me to the brink

Disclosure wasn't something I would chance
The fading love, the lack of true romance
Were cast aside, as joy had turned to tears
I was alone throughout those childhood years

Unable to share confidences, days seemed almost endless
A boy of oh such tender years, felt all alone and friendless
Without someone to listen, and nowhere I could turn
A seemless conversation, was a moment that I yearned

But now the dreams catch up with me
I guess that I will always be
Afraid of what there is to come
Until my dreams and mind have gone