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To Gary Bateman from Fangoria, don't worry my friend I'm just in hibernation but I wanted to let you

know I'm still alive, or is it dead lol

Black Water

Smooth as ebony silk, black aquatic waves the melting
Essence of liquid evil, stirring this lake placid of our
Eternal nightmares, deadened space in the fathoms
Deep, beneath the dreaming realm for which we sleep.
Translucent tears, left dripping in our unconscious mind,
Trick, trickling, encroaching, drowning us within the
Fear factor, heaving, and tugging at the reality of
Humanities thin realism.
Raw is this blackened well, of emotional plunging,
A pit bottomless, in suctions raw force of power.
Thy soul trying to cling against the porcelain sides,
Yet sliced by the roughed edge of illusions delirium.
Sheer glasses elliptical memorization, hypnotizing
The lucid mind, smacking hands blister at the panes,
Begging for this bad dream to end.
But your voices scream remain nothing except
Echoes refrains, that are lost amongst the complete
Darkness surrounding thee, in this murky abysses
Tidal surge.
Wake up, wake up, this is not real or is it,
The torn spiritualist grasps at faiths buoy, but
Instead sinks farther below the currents swift
Under currents, then light slits through the dark,
As lightening slashes at the blackest night, and
The dreamer shivers beneath his covers warmth.
Laying within his twisted sheets of sweat,
He wonders if any of it was real at all!
But whom can tell what lucks under the black
Waters of our nightmares, dare you to go swimming,
Into the rivers of the unconscious to find out, and survive.

BY: CHERYL ANNA DUNN
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015


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Date: 1/13/2015 6:57:00 PM
wow what a fantastic pen Cheri it resounds with emotion hugs 7
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Date: 1/13/2015 5:39:00 PM
Hello Fangoria (Cheri), Replying to your Soup Mail with my note here on "Black Water." Very Well-Done here Cheri. You never disappoint me at all with your writes!! The imagery in this is very compelling. The "Black Waters of Our Nightmares" is something I'll remember as I most go to sleep here in Germany very soon!! This one's a 7+++++ and it's now registered in my Fangoria FAV File!! Best Always, Gary
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