Last night I woke up shivering,

Scared out of my mind.

I clawed my way out of the duvet,

Too horrified to scream.

The only thing that I remember is a dream,

It started how they normally do

Constrained by reason and reality.

But as I drifted it changed

The images dropped all form

Like pixels falling as rain.

As the clouds off color pops dried

My eyes were empty.

Not blackness, nothingness.

That is nothing but sound.

The voices started out peaceful

Speaking like lines from a song

But then the jumbled words came,

Yellow pepper hankie softly sugar

Then just sounds unconnected,

Fa ss or e mon ut bl

Still in the peaceful tone.

Slowly, slowly the pitch began to change,

Shifting back and forth

Stern, sweet, seductive, angry, sad

Yells and whispers, screams and cries  

Finally white noise.

I was floating in the nothing, hearing nothing

I did not have thought, I was not me.