Nightmares

Nightmares
they live with me
not just in dreams
they are my day to day fears
worries and thoughts
when I lay awake late at night
waiting for sleep
to come upon me
nightmares creep
into my skin
and wrap around my heart
making it so I can't even move
and I can barely breath
every emotion
seems to be intensified
and my fears
they get to be so big
that I bite my lip
and in my paralyzed state
I feel a trickle of blood in my mouth
nightmares
that aren't even real
sounds from a mouse
all these things that make me jump
nightmares
always the same
paralyzed with fear
the only sound,
my beating heart
nightmares
these things I can hide from
in the day
but late at night they haunt me