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Why I feared To Go Back To Sleep
(This is a true dream I've recently had)
Satan appeared,
9 foot tall with hooves,
Tail, horns, wings, and all.
He kept telling me
This was a dream,
And that there was no
Control over the events.
He was in charge, and
I was going to see what
He wanted me to see.
There, many people appeared
To be in some form of torment,
From things that could only
Be guessed at, and
Satan took me to a man that
Was strapped onto a gurney.
"Watch," He said, "this is what is coming."
The man strapped on the gurney
Was thrashing about, arms pinned
At the sides, feet strapped and
In intense agony. His thrashing and cries
Were suddenly halted as
Satan waved His hands over the man,
Then suddenly the man on the gurney
Began screaming in earnest, wilder and wilder.
There was a tearing sound,
The man's flesh began to part at
His chest, blood oozing and the
Flesh beneath began to push itself
Upwards through the tearing.
What happened next is best described
As an attempt at suicide that
Ended in blood, gore and a slow
Screaming death, a screaming that
Ended when his raw
Exposed heart was crushed
By Satan's hand.
Satan smiled at me and said
"You're next."
I'm not sure if I screamed,
Or if I cried. But I sat up
And I feared going back to sleep.
Satan appeared,
9 foot tall with hooves,
Tail, horns, wings, and all.
He kept telling me
This was a dream,
And that there was no
Control over the events.
He was in charge, and
I was going to see what
He wanted me to see.
There, many people appeared
To be in some form of torment,
From things that could only
Be guessed at, and
Satan took me to a man that
Was strapped onto a gurney.
"Watch," He said, "this is what is coming."
The man strapped on the gurney
Was thrashing about, arms pinned
At the sides, feet strapped and
In intense agony. His thrashing and cries
Were suddenly halted as
Satan waved His hands over the man,
Then suddenly the man on the gurney
Began screaming in earnest, wilder and wilder.
There was a tearing sound,
The man's flesh began to part at
His chest, blood oozing and the
Flesh beneath began to push itself
Upwards through the tearing.
What happened next is best described
As an attempt at suicide that
Ended in blood, gore and a slow
Screaming death, a screaming that
Ended when his raw
Exposed heart was crushed
By Satan's hand.
Satan smiled at me and said
"You're next."
I'm not sure if I screamed,
Or if I cried. But I sat up
And I feared going back to sleep.
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