I remember when I close my eyes

A distant figure foreboding in my sights

Stoic lines were etched across his face

His hair a flowing grey

His marble eyes opaque

A voice of an angel, it was so crystalline

Our conversations so complex no one could conceive

I recall like it was yesterday

So vivid and clear was the reflection staring back at me

“Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.”

But there are memories I will never escape

I pray for slumber

A lifetime of pain is buried within me

Buried six feet deep

It’s only just begun

The days events preceding like needles they stung

Fear has taken my mind

Invasive like a parasite

A journey so explicit, we swore to never speak of it

Extreme aspirations of another world

To conquer all the stars

But I’m afraid we’ve travelled much too far

This thought has rocked me to my core

This nightmare’s only just begun

“Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.”

Most men will never see what I’ve seen

They’ll never transcend lucidly

But there are memories I will never escape

I pray for slumber

A lifetime of pain is buried within me

Buried six feet deep

I know things will never be the same

I pray for slumber

For this was conjured inside of my head

His statue remains at the end of my bed

Hypnos, you have forsaken me