Last night I had a dream,
And silence tore into a scream.
Trapped in the heavy mud of sleep,
My frozen muscles failed to react;
The ink-black shadow on the move,
And I couldn’t outrun its track.
I fought with the shadow
And could not break the night;
I screamed within my mind-
No voices escaped.
Then fell through endless skies
And gasped awake in sweat,
Shaken awake from a restless night.
