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
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