Nightmare Town

Shadows slumber

As the sun goes down

I shamble quiet streets

In my nightmare town

A familiar haunt

Of my childhood dreams

Quiet pastel houses

Clock my trek

In the gloaming

Ever West

In search of sun

And home and rest

I call out,

But no one's there

Save empty homes

That sit and stare

I think I am

The last alive

Such life a lie that was contrived

To lure me to this neighborhood

Foreboding future failures

My "coulda, woulda, shoulds"

I stumble on in search of truth

My wanderings but bear no fruit

And though

Despair may scheme

My spirit take

I walk in hope

For when I wake

I'll cast this darkness

Far from me

To stride tall

In the sun...one free

-DeRicki