For a long time these pages remained empty…
Gathering dust in the far reaches of the mind…
A dream not lost…
Not forgotten…
Only set aside…
For a moment like this one…
The Dreamer has changed since those days…
Nearly a year has passed since these pages were turned…
As trend becomes tradition…
These words…
What exactly do they mean to him?
What value does he put in them…?
Words that he once greatly cherished …
Now they seem to drift away…
A fleeting memory…
He has faced his struggles without them…
Seen hardship…
Burdened with pain…
And yet only now does he return to his words…
His greatest weapon…
His strongest defense…
What is it now, that he feels in his heart?
Betrayal?
Deception?
Emptiness?
It is all, and yet none of these things…
For he has held these words for all his life…
And truly lived with none of them…
His path has changed… if only slightly…
Though he flies a similar banner…
Purpose fills his heart…
Even if it is seen as trivial…
This holds great value to him…
He still battles those same demons…
The same curses as always…
Though he is not bound by them…
Nor does he feel that he his…
They continue to follow him…
Through yet another age…
The darkness is always looming…
Waiting for a chink in the armor…
A moment of weakness…
Yet his hope remains true…
As it always has…
The dreamer has faith in himself…
The path he walks…
And the dream he still follows…
And the battle he is always fighting…
Not in body…
But deeply in mind…
What would this world think…?
If they could only see…
What lies behind those emerald eyes…
A world undiscovered
A story still untold…
Even as the pages slowly begin to turn…
Once more, these words return to him…
Once more, these words have power in them…
In a way, they represent so much…
All that he is…
All that he has been…
And All that he dreams to be…
They are his past…
They can be his future…
There is so much potential here…
Untapped, yet unwasted…
These words…
They will take him far…
These words that come from his hands…
These words that come from his heart…
The pages turn again…
The dream survives another year…
And if only for a moment…
The Crimson Dreamer has returned…
