Sleep Paralysis Demon

I awoke within a dream

To the sound of doors unlocking

My gaze fixed

looking through my doorway

Pitch black

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The screaming train from hell

came through

Manifested fur and claws

My heart pounded as it began

to suffocate me with its jaws

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But just as I was dying

The pressure way too much

I remembered my awareness there

unbridled by its touch

–

With each crush and gnaw

My awareness it grew stronger

And with each lung that lost its air my laughter lasted longer

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The bardo I had entered

That wrathful deity

I’d seen in my awareness a mirror

reflecting me

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I awoke from my dream laughing

A nightmare turned a joke

The blinding light of my awareness

The fire

I will stoke

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A result of exposure to the Bardo Thodol