Nightmare

Do you know what a nightmare is? It’s the crawling of the shiver of your spine Your need to breathe And the darkness of night that consumes you A nightmare is the ghosts of the past that haunt you The smell of death that pursues you And will never let you go The rate of your heart stops And all the beating stops And you begin to see what everyone else sees Despair…hopelessness… death But nightmares can come to life Through the faces you see everyday that shift into monsters That crawl in your bed and don’t let you sleep And take your need to breathe