OWN YOUR OWN NIGHTMARES
Own your own nightmares,
fight for them,
they should never be possessed by Government,
never induced by the pharmaceuticals.
They belong to history,
your forebears,
your dreaming kids.
Your own nightmares
might scare you to an early uprising
but they are for your loved ones
to relish,
to share
with the devils in their souls.
Nightmares can terrify
like a John Martin painting
yet they can also be beautiful
in a sacred and scarred kind of way.
And when they are over
they will sail you
into the kind of bliss
you have justly earned,
Including the overthrow
of those who have confined you
for such a long time
with no bloody mandate;
the overthrow
of redundant establishments
that cling on
to a dying power
whose way of looking misses
the potential loveliness
in all your lockdowned nightmares
inside the lovely community
of your heart and soul.
KEITH ARMSTRONG
