Premonition

Veils of ice 

Shadows of fear

Lurk

Softly in the distance

As the violin plays

Its sad melody

Do you hear it?

Breaking glass

Shifting sands

Broken walls

The sky is bleeding

It rains tears of ash

Do you feel it?

The requiem is near

I feel so numb

Where am I?

Breath so hot

Burning lungs

Words of sand

Fall from my tongue

Try to move

Out of breath

One step

Two steps

Left, right

Right, left

Why am I alone?

Skin is burning

Fire everywhere

Blackest air

Help me

Please

Every breath is...

Difficult

I can’t think

Inhaling

Do you smell that?

Tremors

Come closer

Death, reaches for me

I grasp at it

I miss

Silence

I open my eyes

I’m alive

Nothing’s changed

No fire

No smoke

I’ve been asleep

What a dream

What a dream indeed

As I walk to bed

The sky outside...

Turns blood red

[19th October 2009]