Nightmares
Nightmares are dreadful things
They creep into subconscious minds
And tear at sanity's fragile strings
Turning our thoughts to things unkind
I was a teacher of children quite small
And loved the years I spent with them
But soon after leaving teaching I recall
My nightmares started to brim
The sweet ones eyes began to glow
Within my fevered brain so fraught
Red demon light seemed to flow
From every eye that I had taught
Then even stranger thoughts assailed
As each child grew in size
It seemed to me that their fingernails
From my body sought a prize
They gouged my eyes and ripped my skin
I could not seem to escape
Although I tried to stop the din
Alas it was too late
Another time a stranger dream
Came to me late one night
It was worse than any nightmare had seemed
It caused me a sinister fright
I was in my old frame school
Twenty-five students joined me there
But one small boy had broken a rule
And slipped a gun in on a dare
We teachers never checked the hooks
Where all the schoolbags were sorted
We thought them filled with pencils and books
No weapons had ever been reported
But in this dream he took us all hostage
Then brandished the gun about
He placed in front of us a blockage
So no one could get out
With all my heart I entreated him
To let one small child go
It seemed that even the room went dim
As he looked at us row by row
At last he motioned with hands spread
That I should walk one child
Out the door and down the hall
Outs where children and parents reconciled
So one by one I went with each
Dear student held that day
Until they all had safely reached
And end to their great dismay
Then S.W.A.T. moved right in sync
And whisked that boy away
I never knew what to think
Because suddenly I was awake
I jumped up from my bed undone
And ran frightened with a scream
I grabbed a phone to cal 911
Before I realized it was only a dream
Nightmares can be ever so real
They'll make you do strange eerie things
Nightmares always my dreams seem to steal
I wish they would all take wings
