Sleeping Places

There are some recurring dreams

that seem to be real places

where I slip into subconsciousness

and act and feel as if awake

Sometimes others meet me there

in a band room from my youth,

where the air still smells of retainers

and shoe polish where the screeches

and chuckles of bullies still echo,

it's nestled beside the freshman

atrium and bright orange lockers

There's definitely another place

that is always a trap that I never

see coming, it might be a hospital

or just a maze-building of corridors

and though I have been here before

and wrote my name across the walls,

I can never remember that the

right path is past the red room until

it's too late,

Your dreams might take you

somewhere else from your

childish memories again and

again but You cannot outrun

these endless landscapes same

as me and you willingly succumb

on a nightly basis to this dreamlike,

nightmare sleeping place.