“A Dream Collapses”

She fell asleep and so she dreamt

Her mind got lost the more she went

Into the depths that we do keep

Beneath the sanity of sleep.

And soon she knew not how to break

The binding spell she could not wake!

At first she started with the dolls,

Pink poison pills that help one fall

Four leagues below all clarity —

Erase the mind and set it free.

What happens then one cannot claim

“No contest” to or try to blame

Outside forces for things she’s done

While she was lost below the sun.

If ever she wishes to awaken,

The blue pills are what must be taken,

To leave nightmarish state of fright

(Not be a creature of the night).

She takes them,

Starts up with a scream,

“They made me do it!”

(‘Twas just a dream).