The Nightmare

Dreams swirl in my head
the kind you have in bed
but with me

well

they never leave

so begins the car ride
following friends
and then
at the roads end
appears a twirling cloud
dangerous and loud

we divert
off
to find a safe place
to hold onto
to hide our face

we move from stone poles
to basement holes
walking about a house

many distracted
my friend detracted
with a constant wandering
while I'm wondering
where will it hit?
will the ceiling collapse?

and suddenly I have
a dog
and when it runs away
I discover my two scared cats

fancy that

so we hide
the storm arrives
somehow my love dies
and disappears
and as sorrow nears
they tell me I'm dead too

All my friends are dead as well
but this they tell
me
it is swell 
that we died now and together can be
so incredibly happy

we laugh and we have fun
and enjoy a few car rides

and then
a switch
and in enters darkness
a death warrant on our already perished heads
into the basement we return
and filled with water
we yearn to the bottom
hard to breath
but in lays something we need
and one of us kicks to the top
and says we need to stop

they have come to do us off

and so they come

an asian man I've seen in the movies before
he walks in and on a notebook
he pushes the number next to mine and I start to fade away

but I notice that though I've died
I'm still here
and my lungs scream for air
as my second number appears on his screen
and he pushes on my lungs

I try to pretend like I'm dying
but then I am
I push him off and say,"
I thought I was already dead"

and up I awoke, heart filled with dread, brought into reality
from a dream filled with plot
with details
and with characters

what is the story I am living
in the night?
If only it would be filled with light

and so that is my prayer
that God would take me there
above these feelings and thoughts
and what ever darkness has been brought

to see his face
to be in his place
and to know
him.

The end.

Amen ( :