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Where All My Nightmares Lived

By CatherinePublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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I had a thought that maybe one day I'll feel okay

Like there will be a time that I wake up and just feel fine

I have hope these dreams will come true

Because the only dreams that come true for me now are nightmares

Like the one where my family died

Except in reality it was only my mother

Or the one where I could feel myself slowly suffocating to death

In reality it didn’t go quite like that

I didn’t die obviously but I wanted to

My dreams were terrifying

Because every night I would wonder who would die this time and why

It was such a regular thing that my friends would ask me who it was this time

My brain was known for making up different ways for my loved ones to die

So I stopped sleeping

Or I tried to

Staying up as late as I could because I was afraid to close my eyes

I was afraid of what would lie on the other side

The dreamworld held a grudge against me

Because I had too much hope and too much ambition inside of me

I needed a way to be brought back to earth

That’s what my dreams were for

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About the Creator

Catherine

I am a 20-year-old college student who deals with depression and anxiety and uses writing and poetry to understand it better. This is my raw feelings put into words, and this is me.

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