Nightmares in Disguise

Love drowning under hot streams,
it feels like I'm melting,
As if it couldn't evaporate the pain.
Purge my heart back to the purest red.
Unmarred, unscarred..
Untouched by careless hands.

Love lying under covers at night,
hidden, wrapped in blankets,
Sheathed in the company of my own warmth.
A strange place I've welcomed some..
They all leave.
Only pain remains, and I. 
Out of sight.

Love listening in,
a call, a knock upon the door..
A surprise to mend my soul,
it's never there.
To spare a moment of true happiness,
I would give the world, to give,
whereas you merely dream.