Wake Me Up

Wake Me Up 

Wake me up

before you kiss me in my dream.

Wake me up

before I stare at your eyes,

before I believe in your lies again,

in my dream

and only in my dream.

Wake me up

because I work so hard

to expunge you

out of my life,

my equation.

Wake me up

because the pleasure of seeing you,

kissing you,

touching you,

is not worth the pain.

Wake me up because

in sleep I see only you,

in sleep I smell

and taste

and hear

only you

a nightmare exhausted 

but just beginning

when, in dreams

your lips come to

meet mine

too close, too comfortable

wake me up.

These dreams of you

have become horror waiting to play out

pain hidden in the

hands of pleasure

cupped like treasure

and I’m asking

for you

to wake me before you kiss me

in my dreams

because your pleasure

isn’t worth the pain.