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It’s you I call to in my dreams, To pull me out from the fear I’ve seen. The ones that hold me in captured fright, When slow motion kicks in, And my screams are no more than wheezing murmurs, When my thoughts are running faster, But my motions slow to a crawl, Drawing out the torture of the moment, But this time you don’t hear my strangled call for help, Maybe my will isn’t strong enough to transcend, From this dream state at this time, God help me if I have to see out this nightmare, I focus and force my broken earthy plight across the dream dimension, Desperate to reach the woken world, But still you don’t save me, The nightmare encroaches, The panic builds within me, I choke, There's no sound from me, Which means you won’t know to wake me, The impending realisation hits me like final last words, My frightened whisper rasps and splutters, I hear an old line in my head - If you die in a dream then you die in real life... My panic turns to savage rage and I scream, I scream in defiance for I won’t be broken here, I scream in the face of all my fears, I scream so strong and loud, That I tear a rip in the fabric separating my dream and reality, It doesn’t slow my impending fate, It ebbs closer still and I feel the acrid warmth wash over my face, Just as I release my last defiant scream, You reach for me, Like an anchor reaching through the depths, Pulling me back, Shaking me awake from behind, Everything fades in an instant as you pull me out of my slumbered suicide, You heard me through the hole I made, I open my eyes to the safety of familiarity, Back in my bed, My safe bed in my own room, Next to you, My night saviour, But then, As familiar reality surrounds me, I look back and still see my dream, For a second, Just a moment, My fear has followed me into my reality, Through the tear I made to save myself, Both worlds momentarily co existing, Real fear grips me as I realise in that moment , The protection from the woken world has faltered. Everything stops, My heart stops, Time stops, I stare into the abyss for what feels like an eternity, Then you speak and your words are like silver light, And just like that, Fear is gone, Are you ok you ask, Everything is normal again, I’m fine I say, Go back to sleep, It was just a night terror.
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