Nightmares

Deep is the night when darkness lights; Sleep hurls new sights in ghastly flights. Reason is bound in furious fires; Bitter the ground as dread conspires. Pain wears a face as evil floods; Blades cut and trace to spill more blood. Watch nightmares roam to devour man; Far from your home such horrors trend. No retreat here for fallen guests; Death brings no cheer in morbid fest. Pictures change fast as patterns swirl; Glimpses don't last in putrid twirls. Screams of horror as malice hunts; Chill in marrow as good souls run. Cruel strokes come like fiery rain; A wasteland sums the scourge of pain. There seems no hope in world gone mad; No sun to scope or purge the bad. Here lost is all with chaos and curse; Nightmares make gall a living purse. Sense the deep dark when dreams turn black; Drenched is the spark in utter lack. The fallen know that nightmare world; Bitter pain flows as torments swirl. The dreamer wakes to sweat and tears; Speechless this take when relief steers. Awake to zest in a new light; Live then the best with cheer in sight. Leon Enriquez 16 March 2015 Singapore