High Anxiety

I hate
having nightmares,
waking me and leaving
me anxious, afraid to return
to sleep.

Instead,
I lie awake
worrying about things
that may never happen to me
at all.

A waste…
this precious time
gone, never returning.
Another night looming ahead
of dreams.

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