This is a shorter piece with the same topic and themes as the first, just condensed and with a few new images. N.B. "dream within a dream" is a Poe allusion/quote and thus not mine.

I'm casting shadows now,
With ten shaking fingers,
But not for long;
Silent boots will forever
Hold the dust of my bones.
Buckled boots-
Can't hold me together
'cause wearing death,
I'm dying a little all the time
I forgot that
While we walked together
In the city of hope and shrapnel;
I forgot that
While we stood together
In a dream within a dream.
Let's stand again,
Make a stand in our fears,
Make a stand in our boots.