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Playing With My Dreams

By ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons)Published 2 years ago 1 min read
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I don't like to think of you in my sombre hours, why must you torcher me when I've lost my powers? Deep within my R.E.M. you strip away the veil, waking me with a rush, your memories are my hell. You're mocking life as if we had another, you weren't just a man, you were like my brother. The trust now cracked, the sorrow seeping, like broken, blood filled veins, the break grows greater than the cut, each heartbeat is a strain. Like a dam meant to stop the harmful breaching floods, you open up well sealed gates, washing me through soggy muds; I try to crawl up the banks to where daylight beams askew, I pull myself all dirty, out from under the likes of you.

Do not take another step into the sleep I savour, you're not given more of me, my dreams are not a waiver. If I knew how to hurt you, to burst the dam in you, I know I would not do so, for it's God who'll burst your truth.

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About the Creator

ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons)

~ American feminist living in Sweden ~ SHE/HER

Admin. Vocal Social Society

Find me: ‪@andreapolla63.bsky.social‬

FB: https://www.facebook.com/susanandreasimmonspolla

ST: https://rock63.substack.com/

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  • Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock2 years ago

    And when all is revealed, ah, what fools we shall discover we all have been.

  • Gosh this was extremely powerful and I freaking loved it!

  • John Cox2 years ago

    Potent stuff! Your memories are my Hell is a wonderful and heartbreaking line. Well done, ROCK!

  • Rowan Finley 2 years ago

    Very full of emotions and power here.

  • Oh! The last para felt me a lot. Profound. Thank you!

  • Wow! Best! I love it!

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