Sunday, August 28, 2022

Awake

I dreamt about dreaming

Dreams within a dream

The reality of these dreams

The actuality of what it seems 

A nightmare following me out of my dreams 

A nightmare of becoming who I will be

In my dreams, everything is cold

A climate of insolence

In my dreams, I am on edge 

What do you think about me when thinking about me?

I am afraid I need to be saved from who you perceive me to be

A teeny-weeny earthling

Blurry, empty like I have given blood

Infirmity of the mind

Identity Gordian knot

I am afraid the coat I am wearing does not fit

In my dreams, I am attacked for being distinct

Under your psychiatric care  

Under your laughing academy 

You visited me in the hospital 

Your revelations poisonous and lethal

Battle-tested friendships

You don’t want me to have anything in my life that’s not you

In my few seconds of sleep

So much of this feels like a dream

In between deaths

In my dreams, darkness comes to me

When the morning comes

An unconscious state of affairs 

Buried in the unconscious, I feel lifeless 

Awake in my dark island, I am motionless 

I want righteousness 

I want to see what I become 


Dead town

I lie awake  With brooding eyes, I lie awake  I lie awake at night thinking about all the blood spilled in my street alone  Everything they ...