Dreamer

To you the dreamer
given dreams beyond
your ken -
you cannot know
the ache
of laying heart
upon the altar
where hope
lies burning in
flamed despairing
desire spoken.
Perhaps the tempered
steel in soul
is worth the burning,
but the pain of
killing dreams
to build another
leaves searing
scars upon the soul.

© Eleanor Clark
30 August 2013