Border Crossing - B. Dolan

Fade up on the scene

As he wrestles with the dream

In the in-between place

Not awake, not asleep

Such a waste.

His sunken face

Frozen in a scream

Hypnotized by the click click click

Of poker chips on the TV

Falling

All-In

And the dealer reveals a card

Reach for the remote but he’s so far gone

Just give up and leave it on

Noises bleeding into one

Voices speak to him in tongues, rain beating like a drum

Can’t shake the awful feeling;

They’re feeding on his blood!

Can’t get up, can’t get out

Too much doubt to overcome

Too much lost, shut the door, cut em off

No cure but to batten down the hatches

But when the night falls

There’s a storm in the mattress

The ship gets blasted by the wind and the downpour

No map, no captain, no order, no course

No path towards morning

Or witness to the end

Another victim of life, a prisoner in this bed

Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!

Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!

Can’t get to sleep so the dream never ends!

Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!

That’s deep.

How deep?

It’s deeper than Atlantis

The tide drops before the surge

Bonded in his words

Everything is terrible, unsettled

The earth trembles

Splinters into fragments, missing and imbalanced

Secrets of the deep

Make him rage against the sheets

Used to think it would be beautiful to never rest in

(Peace!)

But God is an insomniac who never gets to

(Sleep!)

Another victim of addiction to scripted

(Reality!)

There’s no Survivors in the Real World

Just Greed and Jeopardy

Re-occurring dreams of murder scenes and skirting the police

He did the dirty deed, surely destined to be

Hung by the Jury the verdict is reached

The sentence is set

No mercy, no pardon, no appeal, no rest

No escape from the collection of his unforgiven debt

No stay of execution from the judges in his head

Keeps looking at the time but the night never ends

When you’re caught up at the border of the living and the dead

Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!

Can’t get to sleep so the dream never ends!

Caught up at the border of the living and the dead!

That’s deep.

How deep?

It’s deeper than Atlantis