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Nightmare Fuel

On Dreaming about Nightmares

By Silver DauxPublished 4 years ago • 1 min read

Your dreams don't interest me,

But your nightmares do.

.

I can see them smoking in your eyes,

Hear them throwing fog

Across your words

And cluttering up your throat.

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How hungry it makes me

To press my lips to your ear

And inhale those sweet delights,

Your bitter little terrors.

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There is nothing left to my nightmares.

I have run from my monsters,

Collapsed in front of them,

And been dragged home.

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I have glared down glistening fangs

To find I am not terrified

By these familiar faces of fear.

And I hunger for it,

To feel the tremble in my fingertips

And the rank breath of monsters

In my hair.

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So, I turn to you,

A coward full of terrors and nightmares,

Plump with promise and fresh fear.

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I can see them, dancing in your eyes.

And I want them.

.

I want those bitter delights

And I will have them.

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Silver Serpent Books

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About the Creator

Silver Daux

Writer of the dark! Think of it like flipping rocks, the weird little stories underneath are my jam and jelly. Jam and butter? Just jam. Absolutely no use of AI in any of my works :)

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    Written by Silver Daux