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?