"only in nightmares"

I started slipping into dreams and out of them.

Unable to differentiate fact from fiction,

I slowly melted away, like sewage through a metal grate

Flowing to the ocean to pollute a place beyond my reach.

I can’t tell why I’m here, nor if I am,

For now I feel like a ghost at last,

Aghast, I gasped, as the time floated past,

Out of dreaming I had awoken screaming.

Only in nightmares can I find peace;

Only in nightmares can I find reflections of reality.