Nightmare

NIGHTMARE

by John B. Juat

All kinds of suffering storming me

like a giant tsunami battering the coast

            broken families

            babies screaming within pleading for their lives

            street vendors eating only once a day

Meteorites are plunging down

crushing my hopes

            of a usual ending in a fairy tale

to a drop of water against the vast ocean.

Daggers are flying at the speed of light

finding its way to my heart

air turns to poison

the breeze touches me like a hurricane

a drizzle comes crushing me like a hundred elephants

and the heavens disintigrate into a dark abyss

I woke up          suddenly

pupils dilated

heart beating ever so quickly

catching my breath

sweat were flowing flooding the floor

i sat

quenched my thirst and screamed

"this is just a nightmare"