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Dreamscape

I'm afraid
Somewheresomehowsomewaysomeone
Is hurting me...
And I remember this pain.
My eyes...
stabbing, lancing pain
like coals
like fire
I've been burned
it's like a white-hot blade
going into my eyes
and through my skull
to the back
where it dances
a wheel of fire
in the back of my brain...
And I remember falling
My vision blood-red
then dark
then black
as the voices around me laugh
and someone far away-
or is he right here?-
calls my name
and the pain in his voice
is more than I can bear...

i cry inside...
whisper...
his hand... in mine...
tell... him....
i...
love you......

and they drag him from me
and drag my near-lifeless form
to a cliff
and let it go
Only a witch would float
and i only remember a moment above the waves...
and then the cool darkness of the sea
a witch?
i don't remember
but whatever i was
i am the water now
the burning has stopped
and i watch my lifeless body sink
out of sight
i can't go to the summerland yet
i'm still drifting
but when i'm at rest...
an almost-sleeping form on the ocean floor...
then will i say my farewell...
      and go...
   home...


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