Monday, December 27, 2010

*Gouge

No matter how hard I try, I can not move fast enough.
I feel as though I'm moving through a viscous substance
and my body is betraying me.

He gains on me, this faceless man.

My heart pounds in my throat, my chest aches for air.
I am unable to scream because I have been silenced by
unimaginable fear.

The knife plunges between my shoulder blades with
searing force.  I feel my life flow down my back in a
warm rush.

I have surrendered to the knowledge that it is over and
now I know what it feels like to be prey in a predators mouth.
Thankfully I fade into a gentle numbness...

I am startled awake, unable to wrap my fourteen year-old mind
around such a dream.

1 comment:

  1. I had that same recurring dream when I was age 10-13.
    It was frankenstein that was after me and I was running uphill in the rain and he kept stabbing me in the back and I could not get away.

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