Tuesday, 23 May 2017

last night

Demons, monsters. Sharp clawed and razor taloned. Needle like fangs jutting from corners of their mouth. Drooling, screaming, howling.
Ear piercing shrieks, some whispering terror in the wind; promising, threatening to hunt me down, flay me alive, tear me piece by piece.

Jaws snapping shut with loud cracks of bone breaking intensity, tongues rolling out of their mouths, smacking lips and teeth in delight.
Running at a speed I knew I'd never escape from. Their breaths hot, stinging my back, singing clothes. Strands of my hair sometimes caught in their outstretched vicious arms that they tore at relentlessly. Feeling the sudden painful snap of my hair tearing away from my scalp bore into me the panic at being caught, fear lending my heart an unbeatable pace that I felt it might jump out of my skin any moment now. My skin, I didn't want these apparitions touching me. Clutching at air, trying to scrape at the empty space in front of me I ran, or were my feet merely kicking at nothing spasmodically?
How many were they? would I chance a peek and look back? I could hear their snarls well enough now, I was within their reach. They were lunging at me, scrabbling to claw me and tear away strips of muscles or maybe carve out my backbone, snapping it out of my back.

Cease running now, there isn't much you can do, I said to myself.
 The growls were a steady pace, almost rhythmic. A measure of thunderous music ready to pounce on me anytime now, to begin a slow mutilation while I watched strong jaws stripping away my tendons, rupturing my ligaments..if only I could wake up.
wake up! wake up! you're dreaming. Wake up!

Huh, phew, yes.  Awake I was, sweating, my hair snagged in a metallic watch that didn't' belong to me. The howls, the screams, the deafening shrieks..they were still here. Why?
I'm awake now. Go away. They continued, in a rhythmic beat they stayed close to my ears.
Why won't you go. Leave me alone. Leave me, No!!

They won't go, they stayed close to me, but only as noises. It wasn't hurting anymore. They won't harm me.
They're simply snores. emanating from a face I see everyday.
Entering my dream realm, manifesting into vile savage like atrocities.

Oh dear! I'm never sleeping again, not while someone snores.

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