nightmares

but
nightmares
return
and new ones
arise

i had to walk
through fences
of living snakes

and formless
demons
in dense shadow,

and it was
too much night
for shadow

and from darkness
into black
deep outside

and deep
inside
thick sticky black

and when i saw
a light
i approached

and the window
led into
an abyss

it was
below
and
above

there
was
no escape

am
I
a test?