In dreams my thoughts smash into smithereens My screams go unheard My esteem is bolstered by amphetamines I stand on ravines, their edge inviting me to jump To float in a downward spiral To ignore regimes, to ignore the screams Those screams are mine, rent from my throat Extremes so normal that nothing is as it seems Alice went down a hole, I am not whole I try to redeem in dreams, but dreams Always are the extremes