SHADOW HEART
Menu

Blog

Picture
"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions"
- Edgar Cayce

the nightmare above me

2/14/2022

0 Comments

 
i walk this never ending
spiral staircase

at night 
words spill out 
 i go to the places
where i got lost

my stepfather in his recliner
dissolving pain pills on his tongue
he holds my wrist
tells me his dreams

they are just nightmares
he doesn't want me to forget

my first boyfriend
wears cologne
​it comes from a bottle
that looks like a red shotgun shell

my body is still an illusion then
it needs to be 
to survive

i am wallpaper
i am the window
i am the rug
i am the night sky looking in
trapped in this room

you are the nightmare
​above me
some man 
some boy
 who doesn't care

​ i  never stop
picking at the wounds
that you leave
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Michelle Tinklepaugh


    ​

    Archives

    December 2022
    November 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021

    Categories

    All
    Poetry

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home/About
  • Blog
  • Home/About
  • Blog