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Humans
I need not necessarily
your flesh to multiply
but your brains to think rigorously, strategically
artfully a way
to tear down your Tower of Babel
painstakingly and indifferently built
from the bones and blood
of a few amongst your kind
now as my mercenaries be enslaved
suffer from undiagnosable symptom called
Murderous
On clock but not grid they gather
be summoned
by the cry of their ancestors' resentment
spill unto this Earth I breed
unto your downfall I feed
For I come in greater numbers
I am Legion
Recorded by geological strata, a highly advanced civilization was annihilated by a pandemic virus in a form failed to be predicted by its victims, turning healthy intelligent individuals to murderous ones who have the capacity to cover up their crimes, which allows them to slay many before being executed by their social system or their peer victims.
(2 interesting facts can be discovered from this translation of the testimony left by the virus "mastermind": 1. Its self consciousness exists in every and none of its copies, no matter the population. 2. it has no concept of time.)
Jonathan Witte Jan 2017
The spiders of sleep
are weaving words
in the back of her throat.

I listen to the sibilant
murmur of her dreams

unfurling.

She recites non sequiturs
to darkened walls, her bed

a stage draped in velvet
curtains of disassociation.

Incessant spinners,
spiders embroider

forsaken moonlight
into feathery pillow talk.

I am an audience of one.

When her monologue
is done, I blanket the bed sheets
with bouquets of bloodless roses.

Ashamed, I wait for more.

Her dreams scratch
at the face of the moon,
inscribing an encore.
Kevin Eli  Oct 2014
Somniloquy
Kevin Eli Oct 2014
I've been talking in my sleep
Counting numbers, using sheep

My thoughts unwound
A soft and whispered sound
Tell me what or where I found
This yell which shook the ground

I've been talking in my sleep
Explain to me these things I speak

At the bottom of a well
Leaning on a window sill
Rowing a small boat in a swell
Lord, show them my heaven and hell

I've been talking in my sleep
Tell me what I said to you from underneath
Mirza Lazim Dec 2020
Whirling... Keep it solid there. It is still whirling...
"Often" turned into "sometimes", "sometimes" into "seldom".
Never needed a drug or something else
I can even be drunk on my boredom.

All were devastated just in a blink
within my last existential crisis,
left behind the previous insouciant life
carrying along my painful inner screams.

The last thing I felt was a sudden crack
the one you never definitely cared about
and I pierced you back into the waters
like a tiny golden fish slipping out

You are always welcome, dear,
left for you a door ajar
It has been so long since I visited you
and heartily greeted your elegant car...

Put my faith in the wavy waters
believing someday you will fly through,
the Sun will dazzle my misted eyes
and the sky will turn to blue...

Fly sometimes...
Fly somewhere...
Fly in the end...
I never speak in my dreams
But I always wake up to screams
I'm a peripatetic napper aka a somnambulant philosopher... who is prone to salubrious somniloquy aka hammock rapping, on a variety of savory subjects such as which parts, leaves, petals, stems, peels or fruit of the lilikoi and guava families make the sweetest and most healing teas... for example, I sense that you can swallow this soporific soliloquy straight or with some surf, salt, sea and sunshine and skip the sleeping pills indefinitely..
prasad bolimeru Nov 2014
I am
the nomad -- "the roving air",
with the fragrant bundle on back.

"spring ! thy name is nothing but beloved! "
the soothing "flower hive",
YOU are.

I am
the helpless dream,
that cannot go back
to the passed night--

the secret
that hides the path and
the mystic sleep
YOU are .

when will you understand or
make me understand ???
the goose-pimples on this dreamy rover..
the somniloquy of the drunken air..

o lord ! o beloved !
to inquire into this mosaic of zodiac,
do we exchange our roles once --?
Jo Baez  Jan 2016
SleepTalker
Jo Baez Jan 2016
You were talking in your sleep again.
Finally admitted your mistakes but it's too late.
I'm awake laying in bed, the waters rising, my pillows wet.
Where did all this water come from?
You spoke late night diatribes, sweet nothings and the waters up to my ears.
I can't hear ****, the waters rising again.
I'm staring at the ceiling and it took form of scarlet, vanillas skies.
I'm almost underwater now, my lips, and the tip of my nose are touching the surface.
My visions a blur, I'm drowning alive.
I finally figured out the origin of the artificial forming body of water in my room.
All this water is coming from you, from the leakage in your mouth, truth saliva.
Your somniloquy song usually last thirty seconds.
I guess, the only time you can speak honesty, is when you're sleep talking.
Ciel Noir  Jan 2020
Somniloquy
Ciel Noir Jan 2020
what happens if I lose control
and do the thing that I dream of
and let your mind caress my soul
I am afraid to fall in love

and what would I do if I fell
I'd pull my feelings way down deep
and melt into your arms and tell
my deepest secrets in my sleep

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