Anthology

Nightmares

Jean Wickham

Awake
open eyes
4:26
monsters straight out of horror movies
chasing me into my conscious life

same darkened room and shadows
lights filtered through the blinds
penetrating lacy web of rays
cast upon the opposite wall

close eyes
thin dark clouds
against a bleached white sky
with no sun
burn trail across my mind
restlessness running grooves
in my head

4:27
tangled and trapped in my sheets
imprisoned
and afraid to return to my dreamworld

the boogey man is alive and well
and waiting on my pillow