Sleep Paralysis

 

 

            I wake the recurring dream

Night following night,

Slipping in slumber a wonder

If daylight dawns again and

Though the brain battles

Brave,

            The REM gives game away.

 

            The tease of dodging

Tracers please but then,

            Searing led enters,

Pain of every bullet thunders –

Ripples muscles strained;

Sleeping deceased the ground

Pulls fast and gasp!

            I’m removed from battle

Fast.

 

            I lay awake.

Count seconds till the torso

Asks, the paralysis over,

The bed swamped in sweat,

            My soul re-takes this body slain,

The grave empty for yet another day.

 

Michael J Waite 28^th February 2009 – 0038hrs.