Sit straight up in bed

Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
edited December 2003 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Awoken from a dream
A scream on my lips
Cold sweat covering me
Shaking violently
Uneasy
Tears in my eyes
Why can't I remember?
What was it all about?
Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
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  • Originally posted by Being Enlightened
    Awoken from a dream
    A scream on my lips
    Cold sweat covering me
    Shaking violently
    Uneasy
    Tears in my eyes
    Why can't I remember?
    What was it all about?

    This, to me, seems like the opener to a series of poems, ya know?

    Like... this is Part I. Part II tells a different story but is related... the readers just don't realize it yet. AND YOU DON'T TELL THEM!!! No Part I titles.

    The idea is exciting!
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  • Originally posted by CranMalReign
    This, to me, seems like the opener to a series of poems, ya know?

    Like... this is Part I. Part II tells a different story but is related... the readers just don't realize it yet. AND YOU DON'T TELL THEM!!! No Part I titles.

    The idea is exciting!

    It certainly is an exciting idea! :D
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • I'm excited, too.
    **does excited dance**
  • Originally posted by NastAngels
    Silently I scream,
    The wall turned to me
    The Skeleton face screamed
    "Do you like me?"

    Silently I scream,
    As that fucking black cat,
    tore my head to shreds.

    And the juice box floating across the room,
    the voice asked "Don't you know who I am?"
    And then I realized.

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    spooky halloweener
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  • Pull the cover over my head
    Try to breathe quietly
    So the evil will not hear me
    Try to stop shivering
    So the evil will not feel me
    Try to hear it coming
    Was that a noise?
    Breath caught in my throat
    Still as a statue
    Where is it?
    Why cant' I hear it?
    Should I peek over the sheet?
    Do I have the nerve?
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • puremagicpuremagic Posts: 1,907
    click, click, click,
    ok, I'm scared,
    I need to look,
    should I drop the covers,
    ok, I've got to see,
    I'll just slowly lower the covers
    right below my eyes and peep.
    ok, take a deep breath, here I go.
    CLICK, CLICK, CLICK
    what's that sound,
    where the hell is my cellphone,
    this shit ain't funny any more.
    SIN EATERS--We take the moral excrement we find in this equation and we bury it down deep inside of us so that the rest of our case can stay pure. That is the job. We are morally indefensible and absolutely necessary.
  • Sleep Fleeing
    November 14, 2003

    Wakened, dazed
    blind and naked
    in the wake of scary dreams

    How'd I make it
    all the way here
    naked, half asleep?

    Vivid dreaming
    sent me fleeing
    naked as a lark

    To wake naked
    dazed and freezing
    in my neighbor's yard
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  • Originally posted by CranMalReign
    To wake naked
    dazed and freezing
    in my neighbor's yard
    Stand real still and pretend you're a lawn ornament.
  • Originally posted by Radar(Baba)O'Riley
    Stand real still and pretend you're a lawn ornament.

    With the shrinkage I'd endure, I should probably pose as Michaelangelo's David.
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  • Originally posted by CranMalReign
    With the shrinkage I'd endure, I should probably pose as Michaelangelo's David.

    I think I will have a peek over the sheet after all! :D
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • deep and low
    the sound came
    over the fortress walls of sleep
    and into my reality
    that i lie in bed
    alone, again

    not physically, but still...

    i laughed myself awake
    dreamt a picture
    my sweet sire
    never knew i kept

    and my eyes dried
    as i fell back in
    knowing too well
    the thread was gone
    Nosotros nunca escuchamos la voz adentro
  • I slide the sheet down
    Just under my eyes
    I open my eyes
    All I can see is darkness
    But I sense something
    In that dark
    Makes me fear
    I'm afraid to step on the floor
    What's lurking underneath the bed
    What if it grabs my ankle
    And pulls me down
    Into oblivion
    But I must
    I can't be like this
    I start to let the cover go
    Sit on the edge of the bed
    Ankles hanging over the side
    Hey, nobody's grabbed them
    I lean over slightly
    And that's when I felt the push
    From behind me
    And I realized
    That my bed was floating in oblivion
    And now I'm falling, falling, falling
    Calling...
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • i used to have this western style bed that sat way up in the air.when i first got it,it was all i could do to even get into the stupid thing.

    needless to say,there was all kinds of room between the mattress and the floor for lots of monsters to hang.......

    fuckers.
  • Originally posted by the unseen
    i used to have this western style bed that sat way up in the air.when i first got it,it was all i could do to even get into the stupid thing.

    needless to say,there was all kinds of room between the mattress and the floor for lots of monsters to hang.......

    fuckers.

    I hated sleeping with the closet door open, I thought there were lots of creepy creatures ready to pounce out at any minute and at least if the door was closed----they couldn't get out. Then, I'd only have to deal with the fuckers under the bed! :D
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • this is another older one.......

    i still think i will see this guy outside my window if i look out in the night.......he's haunted me for a long time........i read about this guy in one of those "stange tales" books when i was in the 4th grade........

    determined to confront
    his fears that lurk in the dark
    the boy opens his curtains
    peers out into the gloom
    shadows dance upon the lawn
    as the man in the moon
    smiles at him with a mouthful of fangs
    wide eyed with terror
    the boy watches
    as a ghoul appears
    from behind the tree
    carrying a coffin on his back
    setting the box on the ground
    the creature points to the child
    then opens the lid
    unleashing a wave of colours
    thats transenceds the dimensions
    horrified he watches his dreams
    released into the blackness
    replaced by his form
    lying dead in the casket
    tears soak his sheets
    as he watches himself
    decompose into dust
    wondering what good is a boy
    whos dreams have vanished into the night
  • Originally posted by the unseen
    this is another older one.......

    i still think i will see this guy outside my window if i look out in the night.......he's haunted me for a long time........i read about this guy in one of those "stange tales" books when i was in the 4th grade........

    determined to confront
    his fears that lurk in the dark
    the boy opens his curtains
    peers out into the gloom
    shadows dance upon the lawn
    as the man in the moon
    smiles at him with a mouthful of fangs
    wide eyed with terror
    the boy watches
    as a ghoul appears
    from behind the tree
    carrying a coffin on his back
    setting the box on the ground
    the creature points to the child
    then opens the lid
    unleashing a wave of colours
    thats transenceds the dimensions
    horrified he watches his dreams
    released into the blackness
    replaced by his form
    lying dead in the casket
    tears soak his sheets
    as he watches himself
    decompose into dust
    wondering what good is a boy
    whos dreams have vanished into the night

    Oooooo, very creepy! I love it!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Originally posted by the unseen
    this is another older one.......

    i still think i will see this guy outside my window if i look out in the night.......he's haunted me for a long time........i read about this guy in one of those "stange tales" books when i was in the 4th grade........

    determined to confront
    his fears that lurk in the dark
    the boy opens his curtains
    peers out into the gloom
    shadows dance upon the lawn
    as the man in the moon
    smiles at him with a mouthful of fangs
    wide eyed with terror
    the boy watches
    as a ghoul appears
    from behind the tree
    carrying a coffin on his back
    setting the box on the ground
    the creature points to the child
    then opens the lid
    unleashing a wave of colours
    thats transenceds the dimensions
    horrified he watches his dreams
    released into the blackness
    replaced by his form
    lying dead in the casket
    tears soak his sheets
    as he watches himself
    decompose into dust
    wondering what good is a boy
    whos dreams have vanished into the night

    next time you think of or have this dream think of the ghoul as a really cool cat wearing beautiful tye dYE t-shirt and when he let's your rainbow dreams escape onto the large black star canvas tell him you don't dig his reason for being such a down dude and melt him with your heart and when he starts to run let the tye dye
    die your dreams again man.

    LET THEm RUN into the white satinof that stupid coffin.


    hug the monster.
  • Running through the broken house
    Looking at a broken chair
    Holding hands to broken children
    Running and hiding
    From the broken man

    Sloshing threw the thickend snot
    Trying to find the perfect spot
    Where eyes can't see us holding hands
    Where he can't finds us
    Broken man

    Slamming doors
    Slamming feet
    Slamming me
    On my cheeks

    Protecting them
    I can not do
    Bent over backwards
    To cover their view

    The broken man
    The broken man
    His teeth I see
    The metal of his gun
    He points at me

    The broken man
    The broken man
    Pulls the trigger
    Shatters my teeth
    Shatters the window

    I pretend that I can't breath
    Not a motion I make
    Not a blink
    Not a twitch
    That he can see

    He leaves me there
    And spits on me
    He leaves me there
    Shattered teeth
    Shattered children
    A broken chair

    I try to breathe
    In the moans and whimpers
    Crys of my children
    As I listen

    A breath is too far gone
    I breathe no more
    The last one was drawn

    Awakened from this nights sleep
    The buzzing of my alarm clocks' beep
    I wrote these words for those who care
    To visit inside my nightmare
    Love is for the the lonely
    Money for the poor
    Hate is for the insecure
    War is for the weak
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