The Never Was

What is so frightening in eternal sleep?
A darkness with no outer rim...
Beginning and end have no meaning
Where dreams cease to be...

What stirs the heart at night?
Palpitations from the weight of thought...
The chest yields in physical form
The fear of sleep with no awakening...

Where was I a thousand years ago?
A not yet within a well of nothing...
A thousand years from now I fear
To be truly gone,

A never was...