Intruder

Made me stop

Made me look

Made my breathing

Heart beating

Irregular for a second 

These are mistakes

However grave

I can forgive you for

But how will you trick the universe

Into absolving you 

Of the crimes 

You continue to commit on my mind

Capturing my imagination as the sun edges up 

And owning my dreams, as soon as twilight threatens

Hypnotising me into believing that these demons

Monsters of my own making

Are actually my saviours 

Nightmare City

I lay in wait 

For my city to change 

I have a foreboding sense of the digging

Rebuilding

and more digging

That's about to take place 

I have no way to stop it

No way for the excavation of my memories 

and the piling of tar

and smoothening of cement 

and the crackle of welder's wands

to leave every part of the city my mind has ever touched, untouched 

I'd rather not stick around

But I'm afraid that when I return to the city of dreams 

It won't be the city 

of my dreams

any longer