"Nightmare"
Jolted abruptly from once amiable sleep,
breathing now tedious,
heart drumming a staccato solo.
Ancient anguish revisited,
suffocated by the cumbrous density
of an arduous past.
Consumed, stifling trepidation,
seething wrath
yet lucid recognition,
he is here once more.
Laying motionless as the nights air,
I contend to contain the fiend
but its tenacity to be
is stronger than I am
at this moment.
What else can I do?
I bound from the once sheltering sheets
as thought vacating disaster.
It feels as such.
I plunge into the icy air,
searching for strength in the chilling, crisp darkness.
Breathing deeply,
I attempt to regain
what is rightfully mine.
The snow is falling.
The purity and loveliness offer mild reassurance.
Back inside,
consoled by the caring.
They do not know,
they could never truly know,
for this contemptible incubus is mine alone.
He violates only me.
Slumber summons me and
gradually overcomes,
no longer gentle.
Emptied, shaken, isolated,
the insidious demon has descended once more;
Back to my darkened heart.
His presence cannot,
will not be denied.
He saunters unencumbered through my reason
and stalks me in apparition.
All I can do is acquiesce to his being
as I must to my own.
Posted January 21, 1997
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