Shattered

By demonchild13

It's hard to see the one thing you've always wanted shatter before your very eyes. And it's even harder knowing that what once was very real is now laying at your feet, never again to be yours but the chance for someone else to take a shot at. Whether they succeed or not is up to them, but you have failed and now it is their time. Just like all the others before you, the nameless faces and people who have struggled to have what was in your hands but was taken away, stolen in one earth shattering moment. Your dream is just laying there, and in one moment it was destroyed. Can you breath? How can the others around you cheer while your dream lays there? But no, it has already been taken and now they have the glory that could've been yours, but now you are just a number, a statistic for the future to look at in the years to come when others would attempt to have the honor that can raise the head of the poorest man in the world while the shame you carry is enough to bow the head of the greatest. Thousands are disappointed and they all know your name as the screw up who could've succeeded. So can you hold it together while everyone watches?

Now you must go home and leave your dream behind. Your friends, your brothers, those you have been pushed just as hard as you all lay next to you and weep while the enemy cheers and dances the night away, happy to finally achieve what you should have. You should be up there cheering with the people you love and have gone through just as much as you have, if not more, while they lay here and weep. But alas, it is them who are the chosen ones and whose name will go done it history. Their dreams have come true and they will go on for even more honor and glory while you and your family goes home to your country where everyone knows what has happened and spit at your feet for the shame you have brought back. So the question now arises as who wanted it more? You've wanted this more than the air you breath, more than life itself but in that one moment, the joyous moment for the enemy and the crushing one for you and your family, it has been taken away and given to those who have wanted it more, who tried harder and pushed themselves harder than you have. In this moment you now know that the fight had been nothing but a losing battle for the enemy had been determined to win and nothing was going to stop them.

As they stood there smiling and waving you did not see the enemy but each of them a God with enough power and wisdom to crack the earth. And no one will remember the fight you and your family put up against the enemy but rather the moment when your dream was destroyed. No one will remember how you cried and attempted to mend your dream but rather the men who have overcome you join in a large group hug all of them crying with happiness. Far off in the distance you hear drums beating as streamers fill the sky and betrayed faces of your own mingled with the cheering faces of the supporters of the enemy. This can't be. All you've worked hard for, your hopes and fears, your job, your entire life was all built up for this and now it's all over. Realizing this, that this is a new start you stand up just in time to see the enemy come over to you and your lips attempt to form congradulation but they seem frozen and all you can do is nod dumbly as they speak to you in a different language.

They wanted it just as bad as you did, and they achieved. Someone had to lose. Unfortunately it was you. But then it hits you. People in countries all over the world wanted it just as much as you had and they went home too. Others advanced, others achieved the common dream among the soldiers on the field. You understand now that it was all just a dream. That you need to move foreward and just leave behind your shattered dream.

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