Prison Of Time

She wrote into my dreams
the first line of a nightmare
And I can no longer sleep
in fear of the next line

She ran away with all hope
that one line to haunt me
Each new second an hour
— in this prison called time

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
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