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Patricia Drake Apr 2013
I was late
I had to run
Had to take a shortcut
Had to run
My heart already pounding
When I saw it
I had to run
I had to scream
I was late
Patricia Drake Apr 2013
Sometimes a strange wind
I am
At night
Sometimes an extra slender stem
I am
Among trees
Sometimes alien with tentacles
I am
Like a nightmare
Eternal
I am
Patricia Drake Apr 2013
In his oval chamber
He awaits me
With promises
Of sleep
And transformation

He welcomes me
With recollections
Of sleep
And magical dreams
In his arms

Tonight he awaits me
Again
Patricia Drake Apr 2013
One coffee
and a name
was carved into
my soul
Patricia Drake Apr 2013
we ate strange meat
from the ashes
when no green was left

starved and exhausted
we scoured the city
for weapons and meat

we fought wars
over canned fruit and water
and we left the dead to rot

but then the food ran out
and not even acid rain would fall
on the layers of nightmarish dust

when we found him
he was already gone
not dead but out of his mind

so we tied him
and we let him bleed
like a lamb at easter

and we feasted
first on his heart
and then on his meager flesh

In our cups was suddenly wine
and we drank at this
at our last supper as men
Patricia Drake Apr 2013
Oh! Let me sleep!
Let me drown
intoxicated and free
or let me crash
massively high
on sedative air


Oh! Let me sleep!
Let me dream
on seductive words
Or let me die
ingesting
your poisonous letters
Patricia Drake Apr 2013
they all leave
one day
they let go
of me
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