ordinary people’s nightmares don’t faze me
takes me a while to remember I even had them
blood pooling from my ears
crippled dog in the road at night
the man that keeps materializing behind me
driving the same stretch of road over and over without success.
these I accept as macabre, bizarre
dream filaments that don’t bleed into my waking hours
but the merest glimpse of you and I’m unseated.
we lock eyes across a gray cobbled square in Prague
I didn’t come here because you were here, I swear
but then I doubt myself, I can’t remember what’s true when you’re
looking at me like that.
you march over, your hair is too long
I’ve never seen you angry before
and it scares me.
your finger in my face
‘what are you doing here’
‘stay away from me’
pierce and freeze.
I can’t protect myself from words, not when
they’re spoken by you.
my armor turns to paper at the
sword swung by love
I turn and run but when I awake
I can’t run from this sickly fear curling in my chest
that maybe you’d say these words to me
for real.