Once upon a nightmare

Hollow hungry heart

you eat feelings for breakfast

Your voracious appetite 

leaves a world with wounded lovers

                           

What started as a dream 

is now just a memory 

not of a better time 

but of a fake reality 

 

I don't tremble at the sight of you

You look pretty as ever

But the fear creeps in

when you let someone near 

 

I see your true reflection 

the amount of sin woven within your soul

Holy hell I hope I wake up

But deeper in love with you I fall

 

Now it's all over 

I'm a shipwreck on shore 

A shattered man 

Who cannot navigate himself to find love once more

 

Too afraid to sleep

Too tired to weep 

Love is supposed to be the greatest thing a man experiences 

I did experience it, once upon a nightmare

Author's Note

Reviews

[Caradoc]

Excellent piece. I do believe I enjoyed every single line of this one. Of course, being me, I loved the title drop at the end of the poem.

Indeed, it should be the greatest thing one experiences. But when it dies...it does not go quietly or cleanly.

Bravo.

-Caradoc

[Lyn Anderson]

I like this. I understand why you put fell, but for me, fall would be a better word, and still matches, tho not rhymes with, soul.

[KeeD]

I dig the fall thing, I think i added fell cause it rhymed with hell but f**k that fall it is :D

[Lyn Anderson]

I knew it, that's why I said it.

[Bluefire]

I love this piece, amazingly written and easy to read. The story is much like a nightmare and I imagined it much like a Tim Burton film.
A+++