Stalemate

You've understood the system
but dreams controlled your life.
Ignorance for you was bliss
white was black and black was white.
Loneliness' was all you knew,
A long lost life of yours,
you stumbled an unguarded moment
Onto truths unbidden shore.
It's never where you think you'll find it,
but it's always what you hoped you'd find.
This is what you've waited for,
the chance that changed your mind.
Suddenly the world is different,
nothing ever stays the same.
It may just be another matrix,
it may just be another game.
Diverging paths spread out before you,
one is safe, familiar, sure
The other, faint a shroud of darkness,
like none you've ever known before.
You've grown up way too slow to see
that what was once will never be,
our lives are touched by mystery.
It's never where you think you'll find it,
but it's always what you hoped you'd find.
This is what you've waited for
the chance that changed your mind.
Suddenly the world is different
nothing ever stays the same.
It may just be another matrix,
it may just be another game.