A dream….?

I see it in my dreams

Blood red petals

Entwined lovingly

I can almost smell the sweet scent

Alluring and seductive

It calls out to me

Mesmerising me

Momentarily I lose control

All I want to do

Is to plunge into its sweetness

And desire

It blossoms, the petals slowly

Caressingly open up

And reveal the core

I stop thinking and pluck it out

But my fingers,

Oh! My fingers which

So reverently wanted to care

And love it

I felt it pierced

Ruthlessly by the thorns

Drawing blood, which

Drop by drop

Drips down on the surface

And like venom, burns a hole

I can see the fumes rising

And suddenly

At this moment I wake up

From my dream

And I see blood on my sheets

Telling me about

Innocence lost forever

I curl up

And cry myself to sleep

Hoping fervently that

The nightmare will go away

And the black hole in my heart

Will fade away