Fun fact
I’m obsessed with Nightmares
Sleeping ones
Waking ones
Those creatures that suffocate in the dark
Those creatures that suffocate
In the light
Repeating
Repeating
I am obsessed
Fascinated
With why they are
Repeating
Repeating
Terrorizing
Me
.
Night Mare
The mythological beast tormenting
The sorcerous demons
The goblins that ride my chest
While I gasp, scream, weep
Hoping for the dawn
.
Oh, Sleeping, dreaming Mare
Unearthing the gargantuan spectres
That swim in my long-forgotten hollows
Those begging for attention
Begging for engagement
Begging
For a stand-off
.
Oh, sleeping, dreaming Mare
I am obsessed with how you turn
When I can stop and face you
Those times
When the clock numbers shimmer
And I realize I am not awake
Facing you
The scales and teeth I feel in your pursuit
Smooth out, and there’s a kind look
Pleading
I find in our eyes
.
Why do you come, Mare?
What do you have to teach?
How long
How long
Repeating
Repeating
Have you sought for my face?
.
Night Mares
I’m obsessed
With why they come repeating
With why they kill, suffocate, torture
With how they chase me
Over and over
Until, hopefully, one day
I might turn
.
Obsessed, also
With you, Day Mare
The patterns that repeat themselves
Over and over again
As if I am waking
And walking
And sludging
Through the same dead dream
.
The mythological beast
The sorcerous demon
The goblin riding my chest
How are you
Embodying the skins of beings
I am challenged to face each day?
How are you slithering
In the repeating arguments
In the cyclical frustrations
In the same problem
Appearing
In different bodies
.
What happens if I face you
In the waking hours,
Asking the question
Of what you’ve come to teach me?
Will your scales, your fang-laced suffocation
Reveal pleading and wise eyes
When I stop running away
When I turn to face you
When I recognize the
Repeating
Repeating
Nightmare
Daymare
Coming to wake me
up
.
Fun fact
I’m obsessed with Night Mares
I’m obsessed with Day Mares
I’m obsessed with who you are
And that knife in your hand
And what will happen
If I turn and plunge myself into
Your teaching
.
It is time
To wake up
It is time
To wake up
It is time
To wake up
Letting Go 