Once while fencing my heart I chanced upon an impossible dream A dream I suppressed countless times It rose, in beauty, on feet of hope And embraced a tear drop out of me With hurried steps I rushed away To find my mask, my book of sense To invalidate my yesterday Then turned to build my trusted fence There it lies unto this day Un-nurtured, neglected, growing still I hoped it gone, wished it away And yet it remains against my will Time and time again I leave it at the gallows I walk away and pronounce it dead The tenderness lying deep in my heart fights inside I look back and find it there In my mind it seems miles away But truly it’s only steps away Beguiling tangible....agonizingly beautiful And mercilessly invisible to all but me