I Wish We Were Dreaming

These walls crawl with bugs,

Don’t utter a word.

Check the ceiling and rugs,

Don’t touch your sword.

My palace is rotting,

Please help me kill it.

The tongues have been plotting,

My skin has lost feeling.

I howl at dark nights,

I pray to the moons.

But nothing makes it right,

Days turn into noons.

These walls keep screaming,

Listen how they yell.

I wish we were dreaming.

There is no way to tell.

-Jackie