Dreams Are Mice

Nightmares stay alive if you never wake

art by Ddraw purchased by the author

Stars pin light

On eyelids rested

Dreams are mice

Mind infested

A faceless form

Begins his sup

Drinking blood

Red spilling cup

Pointing down his

Spidery finger

To my own

Unwelcome linger

He beckons me

Against desire

Follow him

To muck and mire

Yet I step still

A path unwonted

In a reverie bound

His will undaunted

Affixed in midst

Rigid standing

My host evanesce

Yonder landing

Still and dark

Envelope the rush

No breath nor wind

Disturbs the hush

Then shrieks and moans

A hellish bedlam

From mud and grime

The rising dead come