Wednesday, July 18, 2012

R.E.M.


In my dream my arm wraps
around her smoky waist. I know
she isn't there even as my eyes
twitch beneath their veil and her
dark tendrils hide her brow.
I don't want to look yet my dream
skull creaks under the pressure to see,
like a door in a haunted house. I already
feel my empty sockets and broken rib cage
leaking onto the floor. My agonized
scream yearns to leave its gray
matter and break my silence. My arm
tightens around her waist as the clock
chimes one. More. Time. I look
into my own eye as her face melts
onto mine and I finally wake
beside her rotting corpse. one
more time.

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