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I Dream of a Nightmare

by  laurafraser

Posted: Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Word Count: 140
Summary: The "one million" (and loosely the whole poem) is a reference to the one million victims of the genocide in Rwanda, who were killed in ten days in 1994.




My dreams ravage my head,
of lions eating me&babies eating me
of things to sniff and laugh at
of friends I know not the name of.

My dreams ravage my head,
I awake to see a pale visage
that I suspect is nought but a mirage
but I fear to lay down my head
in case my dreams ravage my head.

Things stop that have never started,
chimerical figures appear to disappear
and my outstretched hand is suddenly ripped off, as
my dreams ravage my head.

And as I sit here with you
and as I day dream of you
a million murdered bodies
a million murdered souls
come to me to cry

And then today I awoke
laughter seemed to sit up and say hello,
and I smiled because I was scared, because
my dreams, they ravage my head.