Dream within a dream

I woke up terrified yesterday
only to find myself
in a dream within a dream

The darkness closed in
I called my dreams bluff
and awoke, ever so smugly
But no,

this wasn't so easily repaired
through an ordinary dreamers remedy,
like Alice 
I found
that the hole went deep

At every turn
I would burn,
with every flare of heat
my heart would skip a beat,
running away
from that which ordinarily eludes me

The darkness
still closing in,
seemingly colouring the gaps between

Rise from one dream
fall into another,
this endless labyrinth I uncover. 

November 2010