CCLXXXVIII - Nightmare I - In your dreams.

dVerse had the prompt 'Nightmare'.

I had two takes on it.  This is the first:

A quick Google found that these are the common nightmares:

Being Chased (but not chaste?), Drowning, Being Trapped, Partner Leaving Them,

Being Injured, Teeth Falling Out, Being Naked in Public, Missing a Plane or Train,

Contacted By the Dead, Natural Disasters.

Nightmare I - In Your Dreams.

As our heads make a pillow impression,

The squatters take up vacant possession.

Goblins, distilled from our deepest fears,

Take control of our internal gears.

With banshee howls, wide-eyed folk are chased

Endlessly, pointlessly and with relentless haste,

While hearing the ghostly spite of Uncle Fred,

Made all the worse, as he’s not yet dead.

Earthquakes, floods and New Year sales

Add tribulations to their tormented tales.

And just when they think there can be no more pain.

They are lost and naked and have missed their train.

Then their partner, clothed and teeth all there,

Has upped and  gone, to who knows where,

In search, they swim into an unflagged zone

And drown;  injured, toothless and alone.

I, too, have a nightmare, horrible and distressing

I’ll tell you rather than leave you guessing:

It is that a motley herd of wide-eyed, terror filled, unclothed, toothless,

entrapped and yet awkwardly mobile, largely unwanted, unwell,

hallucinating people with the watery stare of long drowned sailors

who caught the next ship and didn’t live to regret it, pursued relentlessly

by the nameless abominations of the Apocalypse, the Taxation Office,

the Collingwood Football Club and a tumbling tsunami of

all my lost ball-point pens, burst in to my study and spill my wine.

My language would be quite extreme,

Their nightmares, comparably, would be a dream.

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© 2012   J Cosmo Newbery

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