When a Dream Dies...

Hope, once warm and comforting, Turns to blistering hot coals of dismay. Confidence, a hearty nourishment for the journey -- departs -- Leaving indigestible stones in the stomach pit. The course, formerly sure and indisputable: Darkened, briar covered, and impassable. Success, the prize of a certain future; Disintegrates into leaden failure, Cold, hard, and final. A dream's death could bring demise. Passing seems a sweet escape, But not by one's own hand. A broken heart might stop though; Too loving and trusting for this cruel place.