It didn’t matter if you had your eyes open or closed.
Either way the sea of infinite black consumed everything around me.
This is normal I simply sleep deeper in these surroundings.
But what was out of the normal was I wasn’t asleep.
4:56 a.m.
I’m sweating in my bed.
I can feel the lingering of a ghost above my head.
Tossing and turning, burning.
As I sit up in bed I inhale a deep dread.
My imagination is running wild.
I start having childish fears of boogie men, and monsters under the bed.
I reach across the black sea my hand a sail boat voyaging to my nightstand where the light house sleeps.
I’m reaching, and reaching.
Sailing, and sailing.
I’m on the verge of panic.
To a bunch of mindless static.
Odysseus, this must have been how you felt hopelessly wondering the sea.
A voice from the dark seeped in, “Calm down, you’re acting as if you’ve seen a ghost.”
