Nightmares

Nightmares creep in

Never knowing when it will hit

When I wake from one

I can tell you the time I have been down

2 hours

2 hours is how long for it take place

A nightmare that brings me to wake

From the moment I  lose my eyes

Drift to sleep

2 hours pass

I’m awake again

Floods

To biting scorpions

Spiders crawling on the walls

Trying to find fields of flowers

Only to be covered in stinging insects

Waking up feeling like I ran a marathon

All I did was swat them away

Maybe trying to escape the growing river

Flooding the world around me

Getting lost in this vast sea of water

Seeing a gator staring up at me

Trying to snap my feet off

Yet, each dream means something

I am losing control 

Fighting a battle

This invisible battle that is buried deep in my core

Where flames want to rise

Every two hours I do it again

Close my eyes

Drift to sleep

Wake again

Just a little more into the night

Hoping it wasn’t as bad as the last