It has been awhile since I have done writing like this but I figured I would give it a crack again with encouragement from a friend. Some pieces will be things I have worked on a bit to refine, while others, like this one, will be single draft efforts. Some will be sensual, some will be more abstract, and... well, I guess there will likely be a variety. I am not sure how frequently I will post, but mostly just trying this out.
Nightmares
Sleep is a gamble
What will this night bring?
Inherited responsibilities?
Her?
Inescapable fate?
It has been interesting
To see what changes and what
Stays the same
Like nightmares
If the aliens in the neighbor's attic
Returned now
For the fifth time
30 years later
I doubt they would hold the same terror
And it is not because
I know
That house
Though I do know it well now
It is not always my neighbor's house
Or even a house
But I know that building and its secret passages
Like the back of my hand.
No, it is because
Terror has left dreams
All that is left now
For nightmares
Is resigned
Acceptance
Things not lethal
But fatal.
I cannot avoid them.
All I can do is
wait.
Nightmares
Sleep is a gamble
What will this night bring?
Inherited responsibilities?
Her?
Inescapable fate?
It has been interesting
To see what changes and what
Stays the same
Like nightmares
If the aliens in the neighbor's attic
Returned now
For the fifth time
30 years later
I doubt they would hold the same terror
And it is not because
I know
That house
Though I do know it well now
It is not always my neighbor's house
Or even a house
But I know that building and its secret passages
Like the back of my hand.
No, it is because
Terror has left dreams
All that is left now
For nightmares
Is resigned
Acceptance
Things not lethal
But fatal.
I cannot avoid them.
All I can do is
wait.