Dream No 1

Dreamscape frozen

Dragged into daylight

Image that should have dissipated

Vapours burned off

With heat of flickering eye

Lies like a corpse wrapped in ice

Behind my eyes

Cadaver lead belted

That dangles out of reach

As I surface punch drunk from sleep

Ice queen unshrouded

Did the cold light of moon

Disturb your sleep?

Did the orb of the queen of the night

Raise your howling fury

Your vengeance insatiable

In life

You rose in skeletal finery

And strode the borderlands

To persecute my sleep

You hide your agate fury

Behind Madonna eyes

Eyes disguised in long suffering piety

A trap to lure me close enough

To feel the bite of your ferocity

The iciness of your poison

Freezing life’s arteries

Petrifying heart

I know your tricks

The tools of your trade

Dreaming I do

What I could not do

I tell you what I thought of you

Still with simpering saintliness

You try to lure me into silence

With eyes of down cast piousness

You garrote and castrate me

Vicious queen of godliness

But what you did in life

I will not do to myself

Ice queen

You lie in marbled splendour

On throne of worms and grit

Content I, having drunk your cup

And felt your fanged kiss

Will continue to castrate myself

Yet petrified heart has cracked

And frozen arteries thawed

I will not do down

Into your cold embrace

My rage will keep me warm

Eyes of fiery orbs

Will greet your pious eyes

No eunuch to your iciness

Your winter years have past

Now is the time of day

Retreat back to memories

Cold sanctuary

Take my truth

Back through the borderlands