Night Terrors

It swallows your mind with fear
They're coming to get you
It swallows everything dear
They're going to kill you
The screams in your blindness
They can see through you
You cannot deny this
They know you, own you
Impaling you with your thoughts
They'll never lose you
Panic rings in the air like shots
They'll hate you and use you
Finally tearing your voice from your lips
They can still see you
Writhing as the pain rips
They'll destroy you to be you

Published July 22, 2011 Write a comment
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Kesav V Easwaran
A beautiful eloquent write on the terrors nightmares give...the third couplet- the most i liked...blindness/see through- they together go nice
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Michael J. Gale
Nice one! And welcome to PF! : )
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Jenny Gordon
Excellent! Very characteristic of the plaguing nightmares, which curiously enough forever have your life at stake. You might wake just as they strike the blow, or as they are taking it. Either way, going to sleep the next time isn't as enticing, to say the least, sometimes it is something you'd just as soon not do again, for the dreadful, horrifying terror that pursues and devours you. This conveys the sentiments beautifully, transmitting some of the horror. Welcome to PF! Hope you like it here.
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Weeping willow
Bad dreams have a way of getting to you,like depression builds it walls all around you.Nice write.
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Kendzi
Damn! I was just about to sleep. Nice one tho. Nightmares to fight fears.
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