Knowledge Lost

Death in dreams, dreams in death
Worlds shadowed 'neath closed eyes
Fog shrouding mysteries
Left to be untold through time
Silent agony of voices
Speaking through a mist
Straining to be heard
As I strive to heed
Their counsel

Recognition of what is said
As I struggle to summon
What is learned
Bringing it to light of day
That rises upon me
Weariness threatens to engulf me
As I fight to keep my prize
These precious thoughts
That I now understand

WAIT,
Perception disappears
As I open these silent eyes
That weep tears of dawn
To have come so close
To knowing the answer that has eluded
Me for so many countless days
That surely turn into centuries
Once more doomed to mortality
How many years will it be this hell on earth?
This time