A toy for your dreams



Child you take a toy to bed
And think it always in your hands
When the dark night turns
Into far off lands
And the walls grow taller
And the ground thin
Or the beautiful turn on
their demonic grin
And the air you fly on starts to flame
And the feeling of fear grows insane
Or the angry cornfields grow
Too thick to compete and bestow
An ice cream you can never hold
And the flowers are surrounded
With doom and gloom
And the faceless
chase you back to your bedroom
To take you in terror
Of their turning their heads
Only to return your eye to the dark night air
Where you reach for your hiding teddy bear
That's now a ring that fell somewhere
Lost in an eternity
You cannot bare
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Written on November 25, 2023

Submitted by heathert.34240 on November 25, 2023

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Words 134
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Stanza Lengths 24

Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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