Silent Dream

In hopes of silent thoughts
I dream the dream inside gold
diamonds to dazzle dear
but in my humble corrugation

pity inside my vision
I dream of castle homes
friends chuckling in trust
have I not the right to these thoughts

lingers I in remains of deceit
heart torn down in tears
flushed into a sewer
no family to recall

but yet I dream days into nights
hopeful their will come a day
from the night visions
that dream will be my de'javo

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OPTION FIVE

Edgar Allen Poe. A disturbingly amazing poet, an amazingly disturbing man.
Famed for the morbidity of his work. Only in modern times; our thresholds are a lot larger. What horrified and disgusted in Poe's time is mild today. We need a modern Edgar Allen Poe.

Take your prompt from some of his work; it doesn't matter what. Write your own piece, make it dark and morbid enough that it is not tame by today's standards. As dark as possible, please.

Bonus points if you write in Poe's style. Double uber triple bonus points if you write in Poe's most common meter. (Dactyllic Tetrameter and Trimeter, for those of you who know your metrical prosody). Even more bonus points if I can infer from your work which piece (or pieces) you took your inspiration from.