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There's a reptile living in my head
That comes out when I go to bed
And strangles my homunculus who governs
My higher executive centers, then returns
To be my nightmare incarnated
***
My left and right brains cower
From the reptilian decree of power
And each side bends the knee
And relinquishes the being who is me
To see my nightmare summated
***
I stalk at the behest of my beast
With my fury and wrath diseased
And peek into each sleeping room
Then leave each who are dying soon
And make my nightmare animated
***
I'm cleared of any suspicions
When I offer my amnesic renditions
It wasn't me who killed them all
Not my reptile who takes the fall
My nightmare stays silently obstinated
***
My boarders were all fatefully doomed
When answering the offer of vacant rooms
The coldblooded reptile bides its time
Till sleepwalking, again, my hypnotic crime
And my nightmare is replicated
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned church in Hull, MA. (Phase I was New Orleans and everything that entails. Hippocampus, behave!
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Comments (3)
This was quite relatable! Loved your poem!
Dastardly lower functions, but what would life be without them, huh? Nice reptilian rhymes. ;)
Scary reptile poem! Awesomeness! Good work!