A Beautiful Nightmare

A beautiful nightmare plagues my sleep

of crazed enchanters and wicked vandals

of frozen suns and melted moons

of life snuffed out like a candle

It calls me into silence,

A dark and welcoming sound

It whispers sweetness in my ear

of closet skeletons never found

A beautiful nightmare holds me close

in its grip of death and flame

it burns my skin and lets me in

to a world of horror and shame

Like a leopard does it creep

and hiss and snap at my soul

sucking me deeper into the night

forcing me back down the rabbit's hole

A beautiful nightmare haunts my dreams

of a beastly creature, pained and irate

that stalks my sleep, brings it fear

with eyes of malice, desire and hate

Where does the darkness go at dawn?

My beast bears this question to me

To where shall the light escape to tonight?

To where does the moonscape flee?

A beautiful nightmare begs my fate

To be of a future, to be of a past

To become the beauty I see in the dream

And not the beast I see in the glass

To be of a wold of molten glass

that can be shaped, molded: changeable

Or a world of frozen ice and snow

that is brittle and fragile: breakable

A beautiful nightmare molds my mind

stealing the sword, leaving the stone

Changing my thoughts, sculpting my sight

Leaving a new soul forgotten, alone

The wolves are hiding in the night

watching me as I toss and dream

listening close, whispering soft

Smiling as I flinch and scream

A beautiful nightmare taunts my lips

with visions of demons, visions of hell

visions of music, visions so sweet

visions of angels as the fell

Their wings are torn

They've been scorched in tears

The angels are wailing

tales of my fears

My beautiful nightmare keeps my soul

with its claws of angst and pain

When will the dawn save me tonight?

When will my wolves be slain?

Save me from my beautiful nightmare

find me amongst my sin

save me from the darkest night

save me like the seraphim

A beautiful nightmare gives me peace

as it leaves me to live and cry

to be of a world of love and hate

At last I can finally die.

(c) RandomnicityXD, 2010