Fevered Dreams… Poem by Betty Jo Hilger

As the dark lay heavy on the night
As breath like birth pains breathed
As heartbeats stilled
As concepts flew
Within my slumber all I knew
Had come undone

Alone and cold of soul
Along with my regrets
Among those loved
More than my life
I wandered knotted in my plight
Confusion cancelled rest

Waves o’erwhelmed my head
Drenching my parched bed
Pounding ‘gainst my skull
Shouting “ Is this all? ”
While visions of the day
Passed once again my way
And I lay silent

Tangled here the sheets
Strangled now in sleep
Heated limbs
Cheated ends
Snarled, matted, sweaty
And all for none

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