Sleep Paralysis Poems | Examples


Sleep Paralysis

The sleep demon
Comes by in the evening
When you should be dreaming
So why are you screaming?

You drift off to sleep
You start to feel weak
But then you can’t speak
Not even a squeak

A shadow appears
It wakes up your fears
It’s a fear that you recognize
It leaves your body paralyzed 

No you can’t scream
you’re dead silent
You feel the weight 
Of an invisible giant

It grabs you by the soul
Don’t let it take you whole
You’ve gotta fight it back
Before it fades to black 

Because the sleep demon
Comes by in the evening
When you should be dreaming
So why are you screaming?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Be Me, I Dare You

A warning to possession.

To the demons chancing claim of skin: I dare you to take this body, and dare you to take this mind.

Better yet, I beg of you, to claim each for a ride.

Would you like to suffer reason? 
Suffer sound of self each second?
Or rather suffer thoughtless sense, 
Even you could not have reckoned? 

I bare your sense to be.
Aware to some degree. 
While others often fail to see, 
There's more to their own glee.

Which host would you endure?
A former or a latter?
If not of thought you would prefer,
Ignore me and my matter.
Form: Rhyme


Sleep paralysis

At 3:00am I found myself outside,
Mind was awake but flesh was in deep deep sleep,
A sense of ghostly presence-I couldn't see.
A heavy shadow weighed upon my chest,
All breaths and thought turned into a dreadful rest.
I felt cold, dumb and naive,
When someone close to me whispered my name.
A moment when couldn't even wail,
Couldn't speak and move even my eyelids refused to fall, 
My shuddered bone marrow tried to move and hide,
But suddenly everything faded like an ephemeral cloud,
No one was there no suffocation no more fretful crowd.
I couldn't recognize was it a dream or real,
Like A lost page of a mysterious book that's never clear.
Somewhere curiosity sparked and knew what i lacked,
Intriguing isn't? Some call it's a biological( Rem paralysis)
And others a supernatural attack.

Premium Member sleep paralysis

one half’s an arc the other a strobe ~ light becomes your coagulant 

signals and synapses firing off sparks ~ try open eyes but you can’t 

all bound together forming a dream ~ welded to the somnambulant
Form: Monoku

Sleep Paralysis

It always ends the same drenched in sweat and fear.
The pain of death always feels so real and near.
Stuck frozen in place, eyes wide.
It crawls around my room I'm paralyzed,
Eyes dart across the room horrified.

It reaches my bed where I lay in a death state
Nails dig into my shoulders as it leans in. I feel like bait.
My ears ring from the loud cries. It wants my soul.
Jokes on it, I'm ginger so I only have a black hole.
Released but not forgotten, I'll see it again tonight.


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