Keyless Corridor

the lilac lake lulls me touches my hair and pats me gently letting me doze into a comfort reminiscent of a womb of irretrievable memory i fall asleep the moon, like hope shining serene through darkness mother nature's nightlight beckons me into the renowned repeating dream i fall asleep and somewhere within you were calling the nightmare now all too much to bear behold, i say and stand asunder my composure waning half putty the other fully congealed behold, i repeat and hold your arm knowing you no longer care to be witness to a darkness unknown but so familiar where do the willows weep in this embankment of stark black unreality? not on either side or even hidden by the shadows' shadows there is no life among us only we, only us solemn, revealed mortified the room was satisfyingly tepid the crackle of the fireplace hummed with an ambience like that which was beckoned from the garden of the gods i fell asleep and never woke up