Sleep, If You Dare

nightmares or reality...?

Sleep, yes go to sleep

so you can visit that hell again

when the night arrests your breath

until it's nothing but a whimper 

it comes again to rape your soul

leaves merely a reeling shell  

madness in being buried alive

are they nightmare or memories

a blend of blood's spilling guts

twisting  entrails till they fail

bleeding the heart, sucking it flaccid

neurons flashing in neon putrid green,

deep repulsive murky shadows of inky ebony

pulsating to the beat of slicing knives momentum

they don't hide in the closet or under the bed

these are the true monsters in your head, as the un-dead

take a chance on some zzz's tonight

if you're really lucky, perhaps you will wake...

Author's Note

*artwork by Star

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

i am seriously taking the warning my friend ...what horror you have penned ..relentless heart sucked dry and "flaccid" no less ..arrrrrrrrrrgh! and that pic is not for a child's faerie take ... visceral waking nightmares screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeam!
E.

[Barbara Walker]

Now you have me feeling creepy. What if our dreams/nightmares are reality and our waking state is dreams/nightmares?

[Debbie_Philly]

Oh so dark... macabre and down right scary... well done... I loved it !! :)

[Derek Nall]

Chilled...and that picture is creepy haha. Great job!

[DCT ponderings]

Wow! Somehow we have had the same nightmare. I was about 7 and I dreamt this very poem and the artwork. When I awoke the dream remained. Turned out to be the side effect of 104 degree fever but seriously this took me back. Sleep if you dare indeed. Well written.

[N!LoC]

very nice....................... :-)

[InsanityWriter]

Wow! Glad I didn't read this before bedtime. ;) Awesome piece!

[shallimarRose]

"they don't hide in the closet or under the bed
these are the true monsters in your head," I felt this deeply.. I have flashbacks and reocurring nightmares of a drugged rape from many years ago.. It is these monsters in the head that can drive one insane.. Thrilling write.. shallimarRose

[Astro]

Some chilling images and eerie descriptions in the realm of nighttime terror. I luckily don't suffer often from these, but I think you still did a good job with creating a dark and distasteful experience that should be avoided if at all possible.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

The descriptive and empowering ultilization of fear is perfection, well one.