Chapter 23: Infernal Torment

I lie awake staring at plastic stars
Dysphonic images play
Before my eyes
Butchered rephrase of the day
Living in lies
Invaded, tormented I break
Through the boundary of sleep
Demented by the demon
She inhabits my dreams
Caging me as no free man
Can ever scream
Infected with shadow
Of the past
This butchered rephrase
Is a breach which lasts
Hidden among normal malaise
My night beauty sits
Confidently skinning my soul
Rewritten images not quite whole
As she flits
From place to place
Never moving
But not stationary
Partial improving
Upon unconscious masonry
Her kingdom so inviting down below
Where her soul was created and kept in tow
By her uncertain patriarchy
Blooming for her as she is for me
An example of phylogeny
The apple clinging to the tree
Even as she lies in wait
In my dreams she is my fate
Dreaming of a demon
Hopelessly compelled
Sinking as no free man
Into a world shelled
By past events rephrased
Into scattered image
Silently emblazed
With the fire’s rage
The demon spurned me
Now her loves burning me
Every night every day
Every sleep, every way