Nightmares

 At night have the strangest dreams
 They're never really what they seem
 The people, places, facts and schemes
 Are all mixed up, and make me scream
 
 My friends do things they'd never do
 My daughter leaves me feeling blue
 My lover says things that aren't true
 I wake up lost and so confused
 
 I find myself in some strange place
 And can't find a familiar face
 And then my heart begins to race
 My footsteps out I cannot trace
 
 From somewhere deep I hear it said
 "You must get up! Get out of bed!"
 "Shake off these visions that you dread"
 "All spinning round inside your head"
 
 I tell myself it's just a dream
 But ask myself "What does it mean?"
 I can't control the things I see
 No matter how they frighten me
 
 I spend the day trying to find
 Some meaning deep within my mind
 I wonder if it was a sign
 Of things to which I'm being blind
 
 Subconscious thoughts are really strange
 Your whole life they can rearrange
 Just one short dream can make a change
 If remembered when you are awake
 
 Sometimes I hate to fall asleep
 My consciousness I'd like to keep
 So dreams cannot invade my peace
 And leave me with this will to weep


October 24, 1996
Anne Legault
 

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