You’re just words on a screen
Strung together to create meaning
You’re just words on a screen
Burrowing into my consciousness, leaving an imprint behind
You’re just words on a screen
So why do I consume them as soon as they appear?
Words on a screen
That make me laugh, cry, wonder “why?”
Question my entire life
Why do you mean so much to me
If you are just words on a screen?
Darkness creeps
Slowly
Slowly
Shadow’s fingers
Reach
Towards you
Still you sleep
Breathing
Softly
Unaware of
Nightmares approaching
Soon your dreams
Turn grey and empty
You’re doomed to wander
Lost and hurting.
In your head until you wake and
with a scream, fall out of bed and
think you see, just for a second
a face that’s mean and scars and blood
but then the light
floods in your bedroom
chasing shadows
out the window
you are safe
at least
for now
you shouldn’t
sleep though
just in case…
So I want to be an author... 