This one's a bit longer. It's called "Asleep"

Hold me close, here

in the moments before I slip into my own fraying mind

before the world melts away, leaving a core exposed

before my gruesome fears boil from my haggard brain

a frothing rage of spinning noise

The hornets of my mind gnashing mechanical jaws

tunneling through my psyche

they leave nothing to scavange

no scrap of human filth,

no knotted gut or squirming vein

dry bones cast into sapphire flames underneath the twilight mist

The spasms of guilt and unrequited love spool through my mind in an unending loop flickering past the black behind my eyes

lightning and steel dancing in crooked spirals choking time to a standstill

Horrors and ancient fears tear through the veil

primal instincts guiding my stunted thoughts

the thick blackness of the sea floor crawling with nameless figures

the damp unseen caverns from which eldrich terrors bloom countlessly

Mercury fantasies pour from the creases of my mind to pool quietly behind clenched eyelids

drowning the shrill vibrations of reality for an instant that lasts an eternity

A soothing touch

a scent remembered

your face pressed upon mine

bodies twisting in effortless love

laughter clotted within my heart’s throat, leaving me breathless

Is it so wrong to embrace these serpents of deception

lolling tongues of spectral delights

golden beauty, blinding you with radiance.

To grip this fleeting bliss is to breathe the miasma of madness

Is it not?

Desires sated with overflowing lust and glory

sweat and tears in an ocean of forgotten pain

the taste of you still hot in the gut of the beast that is my dream

light bands of scouring truth burn through fantastical slipstreams hellishly soon,

the gravity of the living once again bends the world to rigid shapes

whispers of smoke and stardust just escape my waking mind

Hold me close, here in the desperate fury that is this world of man and I will hold you tightly to my chest and we will once again battle through the hells of stone and blood to return safely to that blissfull underworld,

it is our world

Is it not?

1 https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/8bagx5/comment/dxzi8uw

2 https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/8bagx5/comment/dxzi8uw