Fleeting memories in a dream
A world of restless slumber
Darkness consumes my every breath
Around it wraps its deathly grip
Bony fingers in the dead of night
Squeezing
Holding
Tighter and tighter
Screams escape my mouth
Muffled by suffocation
Tears blind
Flesh bruised
Toss and turn and thrash
Tormented and bewildered
Open my eyes to realize
The hallucination has escaped
Struggle to shake it
The torturous feeling
Of death’s untimely grip
Sleep beckons once again
Fleeting memories in a dream
A world of peaceful slumber.
