Thread: Nightmare

It is dark,
The air smells of burning flesh,
I am alone but two hearts beat,
In the shadows waits another.

Pointed teeth glisten into a blood thirsty grin,
Breath comes out jagged,
Jagged like the bones at my feet,
My throat is choked.

I hear it laugh,
Nearer it comes,
Ready to feast on warm, bloody flesh,
The laugh strikes something within me.

It sounded so familiar,
But no time to think for I must flee,
The thing approaches closer and closer,
I hear it breathing.

Each breath matches my own,
Light ahead,
I run to it, turning for a glimpse of my pursuer,
Here it comes.

Out of the shadows emerges...
me.