people in nightmares
hurrying through the night shadows
in the mind's eye
not looking at themselves
in windows or mirrors
crisscrossing
the chartered paths
of obsessions and fears
seeing what is not real
in daylight's wander
only the reminder
of guilt and fear
to haunt us hiding
awake in the day
with eyes wide open
not showing
the scars of the night
in the blink of
sunlight's day