Night terrors
I experienced for the first time
something
sitting on my chest
I'm unable to breathe as a figure
changes from beautiful
to horrid monster
I run through an empty house
no furniture
just walls and carpet
dark and it is nightfall
I can't run fast
and I feel something following me
creeping slowly towards me
I run to my room,
safety with one lamp
and a bed
but I am not alone
I lay next to someone
and try to wake them
but they are not real
and they too
turn to a ghastly figure
of frightening face
and black aura.
I am trapped in a place
I cannot escape.
I finally free myself from my sleep
and find I wasn't breathing
it is morning.
I am alive and in my room
I am not in Texas
but I am free.
Why was I so terrified
and why
when I drifted back to sleep
did I still sit in this tormented
demented
dark
memory?
It is the first nightmare
I have had in a long time
and I know why.