Nex Somnium

My dreams lie on the floor, quite dead

Dove-gray upon the white tiled floor

Leaking liquid heat, bright red.

They hear everything that is said

And watch my marionette-strings vanish.

My dreams lie on the floor, quite dead.

Your poison hatred has slithered into me and spread,

Invading my body, causing blistering wounds that are

Leaking liquid heat, bright red.

I can no longer trust in my head

Or heart, love the stuff of drunken fantasy

My dreams lie on the floor, quite dead.

Because of you I have bled

Sawdust- yet despite me my heart beats,

Leaking liquid heat, bright red.

I look to the future and dread my inability

To care for others, to trust, to love-

My dreams lie on the floor, quite dead

Leaking liquid heat, bright red.