Lollipop Dreams
A Poem by GhostWriter17
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Happy, happy, joy, joy, it's all in my heart!
Spreading love and cheer is what I'm all about!
Super-duper days and wonderiffic nights!
I don't know which is better!
Kaleidoscope eyes with quirky little nobs!
They twist and turn, they make icing globs!
How does it work? I have no idea!
All I know is that it's funny!
I make confections, awesomesauce treats!
Delectable cupcakes and yummy, tangy sweets!
My customers' smiling faces with satisfied bellies,
Oh, that's what I care about!
I prance down the streets filled with cotton candy clouds!
Jumping past gumdrop roads and salty crayon mounds!
Gingerbread houses all line my Ponyville!
It's full of magic!
Everything's a cacophony of lovely sounds!
Like horns and songs and fillies, jumping all around!
Oh, what a flavorful life we live in!
Gummy, rainbow-y life!
Some days, though, they're dark and lonely...
Some ponies feel sad, but I try to make them not feel so bad or grumpy...
It always works, eventually, 'cause Pinkie spreads laughter!
Oh.
"They" say you can give, but never receive.
Or, you can choose to have, but never give.
I wish both were true, but things cannot be.
Not for lonely Pinkie.
Of course, I always say giving joy brings me joy.
But does it really work that way, or am I a little blind? Why am I so coy?
Maybe it does, 'cause I still remember my party of one.
That sad feeling kinda sucked. Gummi agrees.
I do my best every day, to make everypony happy.
Of course, it always succeeds, for I'm the party pony.
Life is good, despite my questions.
I shouldn't worry, silly me.
Days are sugar-coated, but nights are different.
They start off nice, but sometimes end up like an elephant.
They're big, loud, and sometimes a little scary.
But I always have Gummi!
My lollipop dreams fill my nights.
I dance on sugarcane rivers and see chocolate delights!
I prance with my friends, surfing on caramel lakes, and eating malted bushes!
It's a vacuum of bliss!
Say hello to joy! Say goodbye to sorrow! Age is gone!
There is no tomorrow! There is only today! We're forever free and young!
Jelly volcanoes spurt, and the fun never seems to end!
Then. Time stops.
Smiles I've grown to know freeze in time.
Their eyes fixate on me, staring back for a lifetime.
Suddenly, they scare me in their silence.
Silence so loud.
Black rain falls from the sky, exploding on the ground.
Every drop erases color, leaving shadows all around.
Black and white is my prison, color was once my world.
Friends fade away.
My walls shatter, friends fall to the abyss.
No matter how hard I try, no scream reaches my lips.
I have a mouth, but cannot scream.
No...
I suffocate in my despair. I beg for it to cease.
My throat, squeezed by invisible hands, finds no release.
Pounding, my heart explodes in anguish.
I wake up.
Some nights it happens, others it does not.
Should I go talk about it? Maybe I ought...
Maybe I will, because friends help friends with scary things.
That's a good thing.
Friends give me joy, and I give joy in return.
So, I can give and receive, that, I did learn.
Maybe "they" were wrong, and I was naive.
That's a good thing.
No matter what, my friends are there for me.
They can help, no matter what the problem may be.
This town, it will keep my gleeful and jumpy!
That's a good thing for sure!
Everypony needs somepony to be a friend!
Sometimes I need a friend to help, a "friend 'till the end"!
Friendship and its joys are my magic!
That is the goodiest of good things of all!