Restless

     You slept with your eyes moving feverishly under their lids. I watched you during this and couldn't help wondering what was wrong. Were you sick? Were you dreaming? Or was it a nightmare? My thoughts and questions disturbed me. I couldn't bear your mumbling, twitching, and panicky breaths so, I shook you. It didn't work; you still slept as if in a coma. I pinched you, pushed you off the bed, poured cold water over your body, and even plugged your nose. The dream kept you prisoner and forced you to go through it. I heard you whimper and cry out desperately but there was nothing I could do. I had to watch you suffer and hope the dream wouldn't kill you or make you wake up, mangled and broken. So now, I wait.

Author's Note

Wouldn't it be scary if whatever happened in your dreams left you awake in the same condition? I have had dreams where I was shot and I actually felt the pain but what if I woke up with the same pain and perhaps a bullet in me? I was just thinking of that... Hope you liked this!

Reviews

[Shy Girl]

When I was younger, much younger..lol, one of my friends was having what I thought was a dream...she thrashed and moaned and even opened her eyes while I shook her...the look in her eyes I will never forget...pupils dilitated and blank while her body was trying to comunicate to me...it was aweful...she was having a seizure...her first of many. I couldn't wake her up...she was my best friend... Your piece was very moving and nicely phrased. Yeah I liked it. :)

[Daytonight]

Although penned with dark thought, this poem actually made me giggle picturing someone doing all of these things in an attempt to awaken someone and yet they still sleep on.

[TheElfPrincess]

Quite scary, but it would be worse indeed if you wake up in the same state. That would be both scary and painful. I like this very much. Good description and easy read. Well written!

[Hunter C. Brown]

ugh that sent a shiver down my spine, darker than ur usual works