what's wrong? they ask

i've burning in dreadful monotony

the gray skies have consumed

everyone and everything around me

every last bit of dimming sunlight

was swept back to sea 

in the storm of the summer

i basked in the spring sunrises

and chased the summer sunsets

i kept running toward the horizon

thinking there was light on the other side

and instead i am smothered

by the dust and the rubble and the tears

as the others fall around me

and i'm left standing in the ruin

of a castle that i expected to be grand

so the words die at my tongue

and i'll fade away with the warmth of the sun

along with the legacy 

i always dreamed i'd have