When you drift off to sleep, a world of dreams and make believe,

Control them you can not as your mind shows you unusual scenes.

Happy or funny, they seem to make not much sense, what are they,

Horrible, scary visions sometimes repeated throughout a lifetime.

Lucky, feeling relief from some dreams, wishing you could stay in others,

The ones you are about to start having will be dreams of many screams.

You fall asleep, notice your fear as you try to awaken but dead asleep,

What are you thinking, are you in control, i don’t think so, you are scared.

Notice that you aren’t waking up as you slip deeper into a most terrible story,

It’s after you! can you see it, everything is dark so what chases you is where.?

When you can’t escape your dreams, what will you do, run faster, no place to go,

You can’t wake up anymore because you’ve been away to long, lost in the dark.

As you begin screaming inside your own mind no one can hear you, no sound,

What laughs at you, what are your greatest fears, forever after you while you sleep.

Keith Garrett