MEMORIES

I'M NOT SLEEPING

I'M not sleeping I just have my eyes closed

to me its easier to hold the images as they go

whereas for my mind holds so kind

my dear friend, I am only resting my eyes

but as for my mind is writing stories

where stranger of my past

are like the seeds

I had never sown

yet they're like a rapacious moth of warriors,

sweeping over the Mediterranean Sea

to plunder everything in sight

to bring on fright

but somehow they left a mark in my life

deep in the back of my mind

I try so hard to escape these things that I see

those stranger that keeps looking at me

so long ago their images

that dance around in my head

but somehow they look very dead

So I close my eyes and let the story begin

and I will soon write out their sins

that seems to always haunt me in darken dreams

where they love to make me scream

while I'm sleeping,

yet I am very much awake.

- Judy Emery © 1999 The Queen Of Darken Dreams Poetic Lilly Emery