The Dream

Empty and alone
I wake up in the night
paralyzed by fear
that has overtaken my body
Trembling..
wanting to scream
I bite down on my lip
Until I taste the blood
Yet,
the fright is still there
I seek to move
but the muscles do not obey
Instead I stare at the ceiling
with haunted eyes
that are echoed above
with laughin' ones
If only I could run
I think I would
turn in this darkness
and seek better ones
But
since I cannot
the horror has control of me
once more
I plead with all for forgiveness
in my mind
as I touch the blood on my lips
with shivering hand
I reach out to take yours
as you hold your disease ridden one to mine
As the fear seeks to subside
and my body is my own
to control
I smile, a simple smile
as I gaze into your orbiting eyes
with my now dead ones
As you pull me
from my bed
and give my life meaning
once more
your other hand embraces me
as we merge into one
with nothing left
but the dread
I then set my face
in the smile that the world has come to know
my eyes lose the dead look
as i replace with the one
that reassures the best
that I am alive
and seek to remain so
I then go about my life
as if normal
though inside there is nothing
but this empty shell
that I have joined
to death do us part
we promise each other