Oracle

my dreams are unpleasant

the nightmare sometimes ends

 with swirling emptiness

underneath an old house

a dank basement, a discarded blouse

concrete walls reek of dead firewood

 with rain-soaked carpet on my back

I'm too scared to react

as my mind retracts

 from the eternal shame

sometimes it ends

with supersonic lead crushing my skull

 pained with every terrified organ dying

 as I fail to not succumb

it ends on occasion

with the hounds of war

roaring vengeance at my door

their hurried jackboots on the stairs

and my heart vehement on my tongue

because I know what's to come

there is something that I've learned

from that other tortured life

 the nightmare always ends

Reviews

[Aly]

Very nice but I think some parts are forced with rhyming

[Aries]

thank you for your honest review, very much appreciated