Nightmare

Dreams speak of deepest fears,
Spoken in images bringing terror
In living color at time stalking
Thru forest foggy hidden in mist
Clammy sliming the skin

Something lurks hidden moving slowly
Inexorably patiently 
Seeking the dreamer unhurried
Eyes gleaming red
Wanting what the runner knows not

Heart racing pounding
Fear exploding upward
Seeking escape from terror unrelenting
Legs numb moving slowly
From that which hungrily pursues

Surrounded by those laughing
Mocking in contempt
Help refused alone
Waiting in fear beyond recall
That which approaches

Hands reaching out
Claw like aching to grasp
White gleaming it seems from death
Grabbed pulled under
By the walking dead

Terror rising
Beyond all telling
The mind gone
Until the falling
Among twisted sheets awakened