by Jacqueline Bartelmo

Created on: May 04, 2009   Last Updated: June 14, 2011

My nightmare

I’m stuck in a nightmare that’s never going to end

In this reoccurring dream I've lost my only friend

Death is an enemy, striking every soul I know

There are no other choices as one by one my friends go

I see each lying so peaceful, their bodies now dead

There’s never time for the last words wishing to be said

With the blink of my eye, another life fades away

I wonder who’s going to be the victim of death each new day

One taken to suicide, another from cancer, both in younger years

Several car accidents not thought about, left with clouds of tears

Some still remain with souls that died long ago

Everyone is dying and we don’t even know

In this dream I’ve turned bitter and no longer care

As I ignore the things I can’t even begin to bear

I've loved all I can love and it’s not yet enough

My heart is a hollow place to hide when things get rough

Another friend is an alcoholic, one dying slowly from drugs

No one cares, they all answers their problems with shrugs

I can’t stand to lose another yet another passes through

In this nightmare I realize what’s being done is true

It’s not a dream, but mere reality itself

There’s no one to turn to for help

So many have died, each day brings another

Maybe it’s better that they don’t live and suffer

As my friends disappear to the sky, they each wanted it this way

I cry a single tear as goodbye is the only thing left for me to say

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