My Nightmare

There’s a familiarity

In the coldness

Of the space between us.

A ghost of my past

That I once felt.

My fingertips have traced

Lines on phantom skin

Once before.

Never did I think

That skin would become yours.

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Spirits of past haunt me still.

Maybe this space is

Simply a gap

Of my own creation.

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My fear that the same flame

Will burn me twice.

Only this time from

A much hotter fire.

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My fear is that our demons

Will refuse to coexist.

Our fires will merge

Until we turn to ash.

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Maybe you don’t see that.

My fear is hidden

Far behind my eyes.

You can’t see the destruction

That so easily comes to life.

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I see it.

I feel it.

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It terrifies me now.

Visions of what

May never come.

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Be still,

Let me lead you

In my nightmare.

See what I see

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Now escape with me.

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