Sweet Dreams

I’m in the dark

Wishing for nothing

Praying for blissful

Peace

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Instead

My staring eyes see everything.

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From the blankness

Fear invades me

One moment

Bitter heat beating within me

The next

Molten cold freezing my skin

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Time is miles and seconds

Too fast

Too slow

Not sleep but dream.

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In and out of my personal hell.

Truth is lying to me

As facts run across my head

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Vivid but distant

Fractions out of reach

But there

Always

Always there

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Light is flooding my room

But still

I’m in the dark.