Your life determines what you dream
since dreams flow forth from life
and only life that knows of strife
can wake up with a scream.
The ogres lurching through the night
with growls and groans of grief
should cause no shock, no disbelief,
for all are known to sight.
They are not foreign and not strange
those that we see in sleep
they crawl and scuttle, cringe and creep,
within our bedroom's range.