last night you appeared to me
an intruder to my peaceful sleep
words slid smoothly from your mouth
with confidence of a man who's liquor isn't cheap

yet your tattoos lingered upon your body
like the fingertips that linger here still
for once you weren't using or abusing
and you appraised me with free will

your eyes once rough and accusatory
now sickeningly endearing
your egotistical defence mechanisms
wasting away feverishly and disappearing

your dried out hollow heart
now plump with passion and flesh
a hallucination if viewed during the day
complexion of radiancy dewy and fresh

in my slumber i didn't have to save you
you weren't a criminal or a troubled statistic
ever since i awoke from my innocently ****** encounter
the knowledge of what you could've been
makes every waking second worse than a bad dream