literature

nightmares

Deviation Actions

BlackScarletLove's avatar
Published:
275 Views

Literature Text

restless sleep,
nightmares,
wandering around
completely disoriented
in a terrifying,
unfamiliar
neighborhood
in complete blackness,
dodging silhouettes
of charging animals,
hearing people
following me,
filthy bathrooms,
a horrible vile monster
staring at me from within
mirrors everywhere
all around me, battling
with my broken headphones,
passing empty
elementary schools
and small translucent ghosts
with vacant faces,
racing thoughts,
raging emotions,
feeling incredible
guilt for stealing
someone's sunglasses which
i appear unable to relinquish; their voice
and their face following me in my head through the darkness...
nightmares
© 2011 - 2024 BlackScarletLove
Comments5
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
johannsone's avatar
At first read, it did make me feel disjointed and frantic and after reading it again, I think that is what you want us to feel.
Chaos mingled with terror.

To be honest, it made me want to run back to the elementary school and find the swings and pump my legs til the sky became the ground and everything below me became a fuzzy reality.

And the sunglasses, your guilt followed me into my dreams last night. I had a dream that I stole money from a church, someone left it laying by the front door. I wanted to give it back, I felt terrible, but I could use it. The money was in my lunch bag and the whole time I could have sworn the bag was invisible and there with my half eaten sandwich was a stack of bills visible for all to see. Everyone had to know that what I was carrying was not my own. It was weird, but I woke up thinking, that must be what you felt wearing those sunglasses around town. Everyone has to see they are stolen. That's why they keep staring at me and sneering, right?

All in all, Nightmares is short, abrupt and busy and squeezing your eyes tight to make it stop does not help.
I like it. It's a reality people don't want to look at and it makes it hard to accept, but it doesn't diminish its existence.