Shadow People

Silently I lay in my bed,
Safe and sound asleep.
Slowly opening my eyes,
Only to find blanket at my ankles.
As I stretch down to retrieve it,
It lifts up.
I see where hands are grasping it,
But there is nobody there.
I try to escape,
Impossible.
It's as though a man is sitting on my chest,
"Get out of here!"
I'm thinking.
But it's too late,
My blanket was pushed over my face.
More pressure was put on my chest,
I tossed violently searching for air.
Only there was none,
A large hand was pinning my neck down.
Suddenly I felt something roll down my neck,
It was blood.
Long dagger-like nails had sunk into the side,
I was suffocating and bleeding out.
All at once there was instant relief,
The weight, nails, hand, blanket,
Gone.
I was in a bright room now,
Not the pitch black one I'd fallen asleep in.
No wait,
There is no room.
I'm laying in a pile of pine needles in the forest,
Trees are surrounding me.
Not again,
Please not again...
Suffocating,
The weight on my chest,
Only this time I can see the man.
Tall with a black cloak covering his face and arms,
The same arms that pushed the blanket over my face,
The same arms that crushed my throat with large hands,
The same arms that killed my family.
He dragged them into the woods,
Slaughtered them with a scythe,
This was just two nights ago.
If only he ended my life like that,
No, he wanted me to suffer.
The youngest,
Best for torture.

Author's Note

Inspiration: based on a personal experience with a shadow person at my house

Reviews

[Sheila Kline]

A gripping account of how one can be terrified by evil, and have the terror continue at the whims of the monster!

[ℰmerald ⚓]

thanks?

[jdr / Jennifer]

vividly brilliant peice of work- sounds like a terrifying nightmare! Descriptive, entertaining (in a dark sort of way) but keeps the reader wanting for more. Thank you for sharing this horrifying piece of work. (Horrifying in a positive way!)

[ℰmerald ⚓]

Thank you very much.

[Rob Santana]

Nice well written. I have a poem with the same title check it out. Thanks for your friendship Emerald...

[ℰmerald ⚓]

is it somewhere along the same lines as this?..that's awkward...but thank you and your welcome?