Sleep or Sleepless

The confusion tha follows a all too realistic nightmare

 

Sleep or Sleepless

Sleep evades this dark night,

While fleeting glimpses float past my eyes,

Shapes of horror tales from long ago

Now in this dark night come full to life!

Whether goblins or ghosts or demons of night,

In fantasy and fable where all is make believe

Come horrors boundless and pain so cruel

Crashing through windows closed so tight

My heart races mightily as my breath now fails

Scream for help, or scream from terror

Matters not when your life is in peril!

Loudly the sounds enter my chamber,

I reach for my defense, yet it slithers away!

And chamber round after round I would discharge

Yet nothing they would hit for nothing is real!

Reality fades into nothingness as lives fail around me

I grasp for the straws to slow my descent!

Held fast by hands so gnarled in cruelty,

The pain they inflict is beyond their knowing

And far beyond their caring!

Dampened with mist I slowly now rise

Looking around me, the room so dark.

Did sleep take me under or did nightmares come true?

Life or death I dare not decide

Till morning’s light should waken the day.

 

 

Reviews

[Ruth]

That surrealistic feeling, almost a de ja vu feeling after a nightmare is so strange! Inflicted upon us, it lasts all day, this is surreal! Great poem, vividly so!
xx

[Taylor H.]

I'm making up for reviews I haven't returned. So you may get a few from me depending :). OK, i liked this poem a lot. i agree that nightmares suck lol

[The Water Queen]

good read. tense and full of excitement

[nostal]

Tense,
I hate nightmares, but i usually don't get them.

[Valentine]

This one reminds me of my past spouse abuse and the terrors of the night dreams that make it all so real again after all of the years safe away from the pain..dreams sometimes kill the good that is in the light of day..Lol and God bless..Valentine Kathie

[deeps]

Did sleep take me under or did nightmares come true?

Love this line here, I often I wonder this myself.
Something to think about. I often think
Nightmares of not sleeping come true.
Well stated!