#nightterrors
I am awakened with a sensation going through my body
Paralyzed
I can’t move
It’s on me
Clawing at me
Finally I catch a moment
I turn and I yelp
I scream
No one hears me
I’m twisting in the blanket
Something’s watching me
223am my phone vibrates
I wasn’t actually awake
Now I feel this sensation of something all over me
I keep trying to brush it off
Itch it away
My skin is literally crawling.
I know I’m awake for real this time
Night terrors haunt me
Feb 26, 2025
Feb 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM UTC
Ah, silent wordless love,
Sweet smiling melancholy,
Solitary, symphonic,
Saying nothing, answering nothing.
All the while your tireless arms
Nurse my trembling life,
Caress the gleaming cosmos,
Bringing close the happy heart of God.
Oct 21, 2024
Oct 21, 2024 at 1:09 AM UTC
I look around and
see Death
I look around and
see everything I cherish being crushed
I look around and
see my dreams come alive
Jun 30, 2020
Jun 30, 2020 at 11:47 AM UTC
𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓀𝑒 𝓊𝓅 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈.
𝐸𝓎𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃,
𝒰𝓃𝓈𝑒𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔.
𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓀𝑒 𝓊𝓅 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒.
𝑀𝑜𝓊𝓉𝒽 𝓌𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓈𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂,
𝒰𝓃𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒹.
𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓇𝓂𝑒𝒹.
𝒯𝓇𝒾𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑜𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓂𝒷𝓈,
𝐹𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑒𝒹.
𝐹𝓇𝑜𝓏𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓇,
𝒟𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓈 𝒶 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝓇.
May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 1:52 PM UTC
Night terrors
A flash of light in the mirror
Night terrors
Is it too late to turn on the lights
I'm scared and I know it
The shape outside the window
Knows it
Could it be,
Could it be
real?
Mar 28, 2020
Mar 28, 2020 at 7:25 AM UTC
I can feel
her absence,
like swallowing
a cold
knife.
The blade
slices slowly,
deeper
with each
heartbeat.
Tasting
sorrow
like copper.
A cold
steel shard
that rests
against
my heart.
But will it cut?
Can you still bleed?
Do you love?
Jul 7, 2014
Jul 7, 2014 at 1:52 AM UTC
it feels like i'm stuck in
a never ending
night terror.
it's on loop and
won't stop
going and
going and
going and
going and
going and
going.
this is my cry for someone-
anyone to help me escape.
i can't handle it anymore...
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019 at 11:10 PM UTC
Should I bring a résumé of my dreams
to the publishing company on West 38th?
An abstraction of when my teeth
crumble like pastels, or summaries of my
vocal cords seeking air through a taut fabric.
I’ve achieved piercing silence in a room of white noise.
I have an impressive inventory of witnessing infidelity.
once, we were both in between romantic partners.
I was awakened by the taste of copper
from biting the inside of my cheek.
It looked worthy of an aged Merlot.
My most admirable skill is prediction.
I can sense a mass shooting or the expiring heart of a loved one.
but I usually float like an island over the scene
because my biggest weakness is lacking density.
Dec 12, 2018
Dec 12, 2018 at 5:58 PM UTC
The night terrors have returned to haunt me
Not able to sleep alone in my own bed
The monsters in my dreams look like you
The look of being used and hurt by you
When I am asleep with my eyes still open
Scared that they might come alive
And eat my sleeping body
Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM UTC
All your friends are demons, I think I know
The past won’t let you settle as you grow
You don’t feel you can make life-changing moves
Half your life to fighting terrors you lose
There’s little you can do to take control
Put your smile hidden in a pigeonhole
Your emotions decline into freefall
Let’s give your heart and soul an overhaul
I can give you all the tools you will need
The hunger that dwells inside I will feed
I can give you love and trust hereafter
I can turn the pain and tears to laughter
I’ll help reach in to find the real you
Harmonizing with congenial you
We will fight, we’ll curse, we’ll scream, we will cry
In this war it’s only the past will die
Now and then, when they rear their ugly head
I’ll be there to put those demons to bed
When you say maybe I don’t understand
I will simply be there to hold your hand
Apr 22, 2017
Apr 22, 2017 at 6:43 PM UTC
Panic
Mind scattering panic
The confusion
The fear
Throat clenching fear
The glazed eyes
The tears
The drenched sheets
The constant shivers
The dark
The shadows come to life
The hand clenching your chest
The heart trying to escape its cage
The clawing at invisible bindings
The suffocating
The weight on your chest
The gasping for air
The amnesia
What has you so scared
Jan 16, 2017
Jan 16, 2017 at 9:42 AM UTC
Evil strung across her face, flaring
Yellow eyes glaring with
Hunger in her sparkling smile
Fangs protruding waiting
Ever so patiently...
Im in terror.
She promises the end of me
As I turn to flee, helplessly
Weightless as gravity fails
I flail fighting the sky, but
To no avail...
I am alone now.
Left in the scaffolding
Its baffling, what was she?!
I can still hear her laughing?!
Why not just **** me?
Was I not prey? More of just a play thing?
Maybe...but still
Way up here, alone...
Im as good as dead.
Jan 12, 2017
Jan 12, 2017 at 11:01 PM UTC
Scary dream
Mangled screams
But oh how do YOU envision such a scene?
Much different I suppose
Than oh. One of THOSE
Sighing slowly
Ever near
When will I be free from here?
Arms unbound and heart now found
Free to make such awful sounds
up and down inside out
spread me thin through the ground
Cover them up. Hide them true
Sew me up lace the wounds
Send me far far away
In tomorrow, instead of today.
Scary dreams
Mangled screams
Coming from inside
Where darkness makes a hide
Seeping into the shadows
Creasing ever corner
Oh how I wonder
If I should really warn her?
Oct 25, 2016
Oct 25, 2016 at 1:30 PM UTC
the fantastic phantasm
of a troubled mind
can haunt away
the delightful shine
emanating from
your glowing chi
until you're numb
'til it's hard to breathe
s.q.
.
Sep 10, 2016
Sep 10, 2016 at 11:26 PM UTC
Save me please
These walls are closing
They're surely hiding
Those demons
The dark
Take my hand and save me please!
Do i have to beg?
I beg
I plead
I scream
Save me
Help me!
I won't make it through the rest of the night
Im shaking.
I'm cold
Im terrified
Im awake
3am and id rather not see this time
Id rather be asleep
Why
Oh why
Does this have to happen to me
I was so peaceful
Now this house is not my home
It is my nightmare
My brain won't stop
I dont want to think
I tried hitting my head but it won't stop thinking
Such horrible things
So scary
I just want to forget
I just want to...
Sleep.
Nov 12, 2015
Nov 12, 2015 at 9:10 AM UTC
That was then, this is now
Who was where when what was how?
Hear them take their last breath as they're shot down
I scream
Floating in the gene pool, expecting the man who can walk on water to arrive
Sell outs and everyone who has had a bad week even though it's only Monday
Whippersnappers hang their heads in shame
I am one of twelve
So expendable
We live in gluttony
Lineleaders, math teachers, bottom-feeders have no idea
Watch them fall and be forced to crawl on their bellies
We laugh
Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia, getting back to your roots
Progeric clock-makers, lying dead on The Yellow Brick Road
Thin-skinned Transsexuals putting bricks in their purses
We live by eight
We die from our weight
And go unbloomed
-Tommy Johnson
Standing in a nuclear reactor somewhere in Chernobyl looking for the truth
It might be in my contaminated endoplasmic reticulum
I am a radiant
Doppler radar
Monopoly dollar
Singing in the shower, amateur hour
Projecting sour notes
Pouring out their hearts and souls, hear them
Trying
Moo-juice nectar, spilling off The Round Table
Blondes in red bracelets, Kabbalah saves them
Henry pays no tax, John Berryman's bats tell us
You are the lunatic
We are the two quarters of a half-wit
This whole thing is insane
-Tommy Johnson
Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 10:49 AM UTC