Just Out Of Reach

Rendering dreams
From mind to paper
Ink bleeding emotion
Words subconsciously screaming

Delicate drops of joy
Extinguishing flames of rage
Leaving a humid haze of happiness
For my spirit to wander through

A fantasy world
Sometimes bathed in light
Billowing laughter
Starry moonlit eyes

Entrancing moments of sheer delight
At times indistinguishable from reality
A touch, a kiss
Still burning your lips when you awake

Other nights
Darkness rages
You choke on fear
Terror drips from every pore

Numb to anything but panic
You wander
Praying for the waking world to reappear
And rescue you from the horror

The worst dream however
Is the one that escapes you
It teeters aimlessly on the edge of your mind
Unreachable

You can neither hold it in your memory
Or immortalize it with word
Try as you might
Those are the dreams that haunt me