Eyes lusting over sleep
that is nowhere to be found.
She hears voices cracking with
laughter, aimed at her expense.
Swatting at her exhaustion,
she tosses and turns on the
tiny black maggot flies that buzz
in and out of her brain with each
new thought.
Falling away from them,
she's lost in a rabbit hole,
falling endlessly before
slamming into the ground
where her dreams lay.
She pauses and points,
but her finger is bitten off
by the nightmares that turn
tricks on the corner,
selling themselves short,
making themselves out
to be bigger than her dreams.
She blinks back reality
as she walks away from the
signs that keep leering at her.
Deeper and deeper she goes
into the dark to touch the scars
of her misguided faith. Years of
believing in everything life threw
at her sliced flesh wounds that
bleed from her blackened heart.
A minute short from an alarm
sounding, she pulls herself back
into the now. Back into her room
filled with hate, with sheets the
color of disgust.
The sun starts to creep through
the cracks of the shades,
making facing another day for her
nearly impossible.
Bronze trophy winner
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