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Hypnagogic Moth

On an old windowsill of a crooked windowpane in a beaten house

Lies a window-moth on a ***** window cloth.

drained, defeated, and done

Time and again,

It tattered its wings and shattered its face,

plunged at the glass, losing its grace.

She's drawn to a dim light

spilled through a cracked window

into the darkness of the room.

Like a waking terror of the night,

With one half there and the other out of sight.

Hallucinating a pathway through fantasy

  Seeking clarity in rays of insanity

Contained by a glass and wooden frame.

painfully numb,

with an urge to move forward

A consuming obsession,

to make it to the Moon.

That lambent orb in the skies

A brilliant ball full of lies

Ignorant to the impenetrable mass,

or the number of miles between the moon and glass.

No matter how much it desires,

No matter how much it tires,

Nor thee amount of blood she taranpires,

The glass is unbreakable,

the goal unattainable,

The truth unbearable.

The Godforsaken feeling,

of seeing, and believing,

yet never achieving.

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Written by
abraham-elizondo
36 / M
Published
Jul 15, 2018
Lines·Words
31·177
Notes

inspired by night terrors, where one is conscious in sleep and can do almost nothing to get away. Reminds me of a moth chasing a light, unaware of the glass window keeping it there

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#moth#night#terror#nightmare#window#trapped#unaware#dream#fantasy#reality
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