Conviction

This poem is loosely inspired by Michael Collier’s Pay-Per-View. The line "A conviction fed by a yearning that in time" is his.

She awoke with

a conviction, 
fed by a yearning, 
that in time

everything would change,

the world would reverse,

the nightmares

would stop.

A yearning that in time

the night would welcome back

its restless child, trapped by day,

for neither world held solace.

That in time

the pain would end

and her waking nightmares

would stop walking.

A conviction, 

fed by a yearning,

that in time

she would become...