Russian Sleep Experiment

The demons hide in my dreams, that much is sure.

I'm awake.
The demons can't get me anymore.
I'm awake.
The evil can't eat me anymore.
See I'm awake.
Sleep is where they live.
And cause I'm awake,
I'm free.

Free from the spirits that haunt me.
Free from the shadows that stalk me.
Free from the ghosts that follow me.
And free from the dead that chill me.

Don't fall asleep.
Don't give up.
Run, scream, die.
Just don't sleep.

My demons aren't creatures.
My demons aren't horrors.
My demons don't go bump in the night.
My demons are inside.

Inside my mind they wait.
Inside my thoughts they lay.
I'm paralyzed by a fear I can't control
God I can't fall asleep.

See in sleep my mind runs free
Free from it's bonds that protect me.
The bonds I place in the day
Disappear in the night.

Mama always said told me
Nothing good comes of the night
Cause all our sins come out to play
And laugh, and yell, and stare.

I'm awake.
And I'm horrified.
Cause if I sleep.
I'll set myself free.
And how great is that fear
That fear of ourselves.

Reviews

[SammMG]

To sleep is to really take off the bars in our mind and let it run free. Some say dreams our just what we really think, just not what we focus on. To someone in distress I can just imagine how an unhinged mind could haunt them....

Great job!

[Renee Broughman]

I have read about this! It was pretty horrifying, and I think this poem captures every bit of the intensity that was the Russian Sleep Experiment. Great job!