Showing posts with label night terrors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label night terrors. Show all posts

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Before four




Must be some-one

Wakes me pre-dawn 

At 3

Mind a maze

Organs ablaze

Quiet cacophony

Stirring the still waters


Must be some-thing

Which must be known or

Revealed to the euphotic zone

Poetry and ghosts arise

And mingle, my solidity heavy

Disruptive to the lucid dream


Must have

Second thoughts

Choruses drone, stuck

So it seems, 

telling, reminding

Of lighter times 


Than the chasm and coffin can

Offer an anxious creature

Of habit and habitation,

A disheveled dwelling 

And the slumber until

The next hour


Or

Finding what I must be

Looking for. 


Painting by Edvard Munch - Sleepless Night. Self-Portrait in Inner Turmoil c. 1920- MM.M.00076 - Munch Museum in Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 

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