Wake Up

Figure this
all I know 
crumples upon waking 
How do dreams 
present truth
over life? 
Life, divided by terror 
Life, splitting synapses
but Death
Death dare not stray 
from her rightful course 
easy to seduce, 
when life a nightmare 
walking
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