Vienna

Since I was a child

I've seen her in a dream

A captured fairy tale that echoes 'cross my life

And though

I've courted her, she's always stayed unseen

Now all at once she glitters in the night

But that was yesterday and that all was before

When she was far away, a silhouette of dreams

But others whispered that she was so much more

And suddenly

I now know what they mean

Dreams change, years strain

Lost illusion's last stands

God's hand, absolution found

Fairy tale sins, visions by grim, all forgiven

Lives spent in vain, never reclaimed take their final bows

Pictures and words, visions absurd

Maddened poets all within sights

Failures in life who'll never know it

Lazarus cries there in his eyes

Hope has risen, depth and facade all before me now

Vienna