anti-persephone

and we were together in my dream for a while and then you walked away and then you stopped and turned your head back to look straight in my eyes and your dreamface was so full of anger and contempt, a look I had never seen before, and I snapped awake—

                  all shaking chest tremors short breath terror and
the clock 3.30am and I forbade myself from ever dreaming again I
forbade myself from ever