Mercy Prayers

Crepe Suzette sunlight
Wallpapered mind
Forever endures
In hurting hearts
To satisfy hunger
Creamy dreamy
Between crisp layers
Of reality
We know the
Players are our
Prayers
We keep them
mothballed
In anaesthetic comas
Safe from failure's
Daily slaughterhouse
The charnel house
Dripping cynicism.

I decided
I couldn't keep them
Anymore
My mind empowering
Such vast slippages
Of energy.

Power outage
Tonight
Outraged by
Notions
That can't stand up
To reality.

Let me sleep
In my dreams tonight.

Not dream in my sleep.

All prayers shall be
Answered.

In merciful Lethe.

(c) Amrita Valan 2017