Betrayed By My Mind Poem by Sam Betts

Nightmare
Has I plot my course through my rancid dream things here are never quite what they seem
I tread putrid water where dead things live their rotting flesh they freely they give

My teeth crumble has I pull them out just a few left that are holding stout.

He's always here he never goes and he knows my weakness that nobody knows
He laughs at my nakedness sneers at my life he tears her clothes and mocks my wife.

I'm in the usual room where the doors don't lock it's coming in after the usual knock.
I run so fast but on the spot I can't leave the child in the cot.

I tumble through floors with out a sound to the putrid water where the dead things drowned
I reach the sky with sudden grace I'm saved from that which I can't face.

Then my wings just break without a sound and I'm plunging fast towards the ground,
My screaming mouth doesn't make a sound,
I don't impact though I have no brake my mind knows when it's time to wake.

Did I really slay him it seems so real, in my drowsy moments that's what I feel then come mid day fully awake it's a stupid thought my mind did make.

So the dream returns it's lucid rhyme in these nightmares realms I sleep my time one day I shall enter the crypt where the shaking thing stares wide eyed tight lipped.

I will push full the door full of grace, defy the torrid things that scrape my face, why must I stay in this putrid place.

Please blissful sleep come to my fold these nightmares dreams my mind can't hold.