25 January 2014

Nightmares

You have eyes

And you close them

To drift into another land,

A land, they say, where

Everything comes true,

The good and the bad things, yes both.

But you think of the bad things

And it scares you

To fall asleep

As if he will come

And tie your hands

And legs,

And rip apart your heart

And genital.

As if he will beat you

To death

And you forget

That the truth is:

Knife stabs you one day

And the next day

You stab it.

‘Do I get hurt?’ you think,

‘No’, I say, ‘You do not.’

Because it gets blunt

And because it snows

Inside your head.

So have some sleep tonight.

Nightmares are just nightmares.

Reality is far more scary

And you live with it.

Then why not live in dreams?

Poetry

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