Nightmares

The dream is over, I open my eyes, but death is all I see.
I pray that the demons might go away and finally let me be.
A lightning strike brightens the scene but dims my soul much more,
I fall away from all I knew, and nothing is as before.
I am alive in a dying world, there's nothing I can save.
The clock ticks on, I watch my watch, for I am time's slave.
I no longer know who I am, my name means nothing to me,
A stray thought makes me wonder what it means to be free.
I long to sleep, but if I do, only nightmares will come