The Dream
I wake up from a dream I do not remember
What was it that scared me so?
I close my eyes and try to recall.
I am suddenly suspend in blackness,
“Where am I? How did I get here?”
These questions run through my head repeatedly.
Then through the silence a sound interrupts my thoughts
There is a knocking somewhere in the dark
And fear flashes through me like lighting
“Who are you? What do you want?”
I cry out but there is no answer only knocking.
I try to scream but all sound stops in my throat
And, I wake in mid-scream as I had done before
Only this time I remember what the scream was for
Who was knocking in the blackness?
Was it an imagined monster, or was it ….
My own dark death?