Hello FireEyes,
I hope this you find well.
Nightmare,
creeping into your dream.
I love the first two lines because there is so much meaning behind them. These potentially two lines potentially change the whole poem. This feeling of your worst fears, so horrible they keep you awake at night. Like the monster under the bed or the trauma from an accident.
Some familiar faces
are scarier than they seem.
The stark contrast to the first two lines seems to remind you of what is going on. This tormentation of knowing your worst fears are a reality. Knowing someone you love or someone you know could be scary and ghoulish.
Do they want your love
or do they want your hatred?
The hard-hitting truth that it isn't just somebody you know, it's someone you love is heart-wrenching. A lover, sibling, maybe a parent. Someone you love with all your heart betrays you and makes you feel worthless. Makes you feel like they don't deserve your love.
All domestic scenes
become devilishly sacred.
This screams couple, lovers etc. Some type of partners. It also shoves one word in my mouth: Domestic Violence. It makes you think about a life disrupted and strewn about. All because of someone else, someone you love with all your heart has made it that you have to live in such a horrible way.
Your internal truth
is violently set free.
Your internal truth, something rocketing from inside you. Like hot ash tumbling away from a volcano. This truth that you've known is inside you. Something you've needed to do or say but suppressed and subdued.
All your running will never
get you away from me.
This last line gives me two ideas. Either the narrator is actually the tormentor and this poem had just been a sadistic representation of someone who thinks they're better than everyone and that they are the ones being wronged. Or the lover has finally realized what they are doing is hurting the person they most love and is trying to stop, when it isn't that easy.
Overall the poem was really nice, it had immense meaning and feeling behind it and I admire that. The feeling of disruption is further accentuated by the fact everything is strewn about on the other side of the page. I really enjoyed reading it.
Good day/night,
Lehmanf
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