By Star of David
Date: 2015 Aug 16
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[[2015.08.16.10.06.7407]]

nightmares

vocal cords
paralyzed, woke up
soundlessly screaming

throat raw,
burning; your ghost
shredding my sleep still

you were only reading
in an empty house you used
to visit, a house I once lived in

and yet I woke up
silently screaming, the
sight of you unbearable still