Dream of a nightmare

Does that happen to you?

Every now and then, 

often maybe?

Just when you think

you had it all,

all under control,

glowing in the smugness

of knowing it.

That one is kicked,

deep in the gut.

Knocking the wind off.

Caught-

in a vortex of disbelief-

unguarded and unaware.

When one is sold to the

grand spread of deceit,

The distant bells toll.

It's peals ringing truth 

into your ears

and shivering soul,

like the quaking,slurred speech

of a wizened soothsayer.

And you run 

from

the hideously

gnarled veins on that

bony frame.

And you run from it all

while the distant bells toll.

You struggle

to flee out of reach.

They grasp you,

and lay it all naked and bare.

Whispering in hushed tones,

that waking or not,

some dreams 

do come true,but ,

every now and then

so does a nightmare.

So, does that happen to you?

At times, maybe,

 when you are asleep,

when you are unguarded,

unaware?

Was that a dream? 

A nightmare?

Or dream of a nightmare?