• Just go back to sleep

    Just go back to sleep

    And let the dream fade into oblivion

    Like a candle snuffed out 

    The gray black smoke dissipates 

    And only a whisper of the scent remains

    Until you wonder if you ever burned the candle at all

    And what was the dream?

    Snatches of it come back to you 

    A song

    A conversation

    A familiar face, someone you know 

    but now cannot recall

    Someone you spoke with

    And laughed with

    A friend

    A strange encounter

    Were you in the ocean?

    There was an octopus

    but now…

    now there is nothing at all

    And you go back to a listless slumber

    Never to dream at all

  • sour marble

    You swallow it like a sour marble

    It’s cold

    and hard

    and heavy

    and bitter

    It rattles in your vacant stomach

    Rolls along the sides

    Reminding you of the emptiness inside.

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