Where Dreams Go To Die

The stars were shining over the magnificent hills, whilst the silence of the night filled the air. She breathed in, and breathed out, it was somewhat liberating yet somewhat bittersweet accepting the truth she thought, as she stared out into the hills.

Some dreams come true. And some dreams fade into the abyss of darkness. The city of angels, as beautiful as it seemed, left her out in the loneliest of streets, to walk amongst the dead and amongst the lost dreams that were once filled with love and life.

Her once gleaming and tearful eyes were now empty mirrors reflecting the glimmer of the stars above as she lay on the bonnet of her car thinking to herself, “so this is it”. She no longer ponders on whether she didn’t try hard enough, nor if this city had betrayed her. A moment of flashbacks occurred. A childlike laughter and the embrace of her mother, feeling like a long lost memory. The dream. The fight. The airport. The plane landing. The promise…. The promise of forever. But forever ended up being a short moment. The abandonment. The abandonment from a city that promised so much. And then the struggle.

It no longer made her angry, after all, everything that had happened made her who she always thought she was. A star. She is you. She is me. She is your sister, your friend, your mother. The ones that never wanted to give up. She is all the stars that didn’t make it to their shine. She breathed in, breathed out. And so she joined the stars above her.