Nightmare
Fear, anxiety, and agony fill my heart.
Monsters, ghosts, beasts, and vampires occupy the scene.
Through terrifying events, minds get torn apart.
Blood-spattered sanguinary battle games are seen
Why should such heart-attacking, drastic dreams arise?
Don't God and his angels protect me in my sleep?
Why should I witness murder, bloodshed, and loud cries?
Why should, on my bed, scorpions and cobras creep?
As nature has, for everything, an objective
My nightmares occur for a set reason as well.
As a treatment, psychically renovative
Hasn't Nightmare got its curing catharsis spell?
Though, as with an unexpected death, unrest spreads,
Some warning, like a knell, rings within my shrine's core.
'Beware!', a sign alerts me to liable threats.
With conscious footsteps, my existence, I restore...
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