Nightmare Poem by Claudia Krizay

As I awaken from a
Restless sleep,
I hear a sudden shattering
Upon this tempestuous night,
As I rise, cryptically glancing
Outside my bedroom window,
Darkness fades as
Disjointed shards of glass
Are dropping, seemingly from the sky
Black as burning cinders, and
Helplessly as would
Dead crows,
Onto the frozen cement,
Into a foul, fetid heap,
Defining wrath and bitterness, it would be
As breaking into smithereens-
The cracking of ice, and
If could be heard,
Lightening opening the vastness of the blackening sky,
A fissure in the imaginary voices that only I can hear, and
As these
Sounds are muted, and as muffled by a winter’s squall-
My tears are dispersed in the wind.
Within each and every piece of broken glass,
I can see the mirrored image of anger blazing in my eyes, and
As fog descends over the horizon,
And as life continues without change,
Ironically,
My reflection would tell a story of
What the future holds…

Claudia Krizay