Screams hidden in moonlight

Nightmares just seem to haunt me now.
They taunt and taste me in the midnight hour.
They laugh at my mistakes and scare my future.
Opening wounds that I thought I’d once sutured.

Dreams haunt me like never before,
Making me wonder aimlessly more and more.
I thought it was you, and it really was me
Now I’m stuck in my own midnight fantasy.
Dealing with dilemma’s and drama’s
these thoughts separated by all these comma’s.

I knew once who this was, now it’s all just a ploy.
My mind has come in control and my body’s a mere toy.

Nightmares are rattling my cage in the still of the night.
Where everything doesn’t have to seem all right.
Trails of terror and stains on the ceiling.
While I’m left with this dreadful feeling.

I thought I knew myself, but I prove that wrong every-night
My horrors and screams are hidden by the stale-pale moonlight.

08/31/2003

Author's Note: I wrote this about nightmares.. How you could have the sum of all your fears and you're screaming your head off.. and yet.. no one knows of these horros except you.

Posted on 08/31/2003
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