Nothing Before Me, Nothing Behind

At daybreak I woke from a dread-filled dark dream          
Opening my eyes to infinite nothing          
Feeling my way to the light switch on my wall          
The sound of the click was momentary relief          
As the glow of the bulb revealed more darkness to me          
Than I had ever seen before or behind          
A blanket of black entrapped the shape of my hands          
Cloaking the image in the mirror that looked back at me          
With eyes as wide open as my own though lacking perception          
Sensing motion in darkness, seeing waves of cold wind          
Carrying smoke so thick it choked my thoughts dry          
Till I could not quench this thirst with all of the tears from each eye          
Cried in blindness in a mind without light          
Without a glimmer of hope or a shadow of white          
What terrible curse has stolen a visionaries' site?          
Turning the morning's sunrise into an endless midnight          
Even my once vivid memory of your beautiful face          
Has faded to shackles of black leather and lace          
Blindfolds of satin appear covering these eyes          
Clearly this dream became a nightmare of lies          
Where rainbows once rose to shower on me          
Now vacant your once sparkling gaze    
In a mind full of one color    
There is nothing to see