Who Are You

…if you gaze long into an abyss, 
          the abyss gazes also into you.
                         ~Friedrich Nietzche

You haunt my nights like a beast of prey along 
a tangled forest byway beneath a dark
and moonless sky, stars without candescent song
to orchestrate the dawn and ignite the spark,
chasing nightmare shadows into the abyss
of madness with not one day-lit thing amiss ~
as asylum nurses bring the daily dose 
of magical pharmakeia from Hypnose.*

*Greek god of sleep

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