Dreams Seeking Escape

Screams echo

Jerking up in bed

Like Jack out of the box

Fearful

As if death has appeared

My hotel

Of disturbing sleep

The night manager

Unaware

So deaf

Is he

Me

Gasping for air

Like a discarded finger puppet

Joining other rooms

Their dreams groping for purchase

As fellow shadows of the night

So many farces and tragedies

Vying for synchronicity

Window repose

Hotel neon beckons

To color the night

Sizzle

Spark

Stay alive

Eternity awaits

Its voiceless echo

Wanting to hear

Death make some resonance tonight

Only the bedbugs beneath

The bodies of the haunted

Make mini-sounds of diving deep

So sublime

Their escape from

Man’s crushing weight of noise

As eternity patiently bides its time