Him

I wake
Immobile
The beast from my dream laughs at me from his throne upon my chest

I can't breathe
Can't move
The demon's eyes
Scorch my soul and incinerate the rest

I feel them
So real
Five points of agony
His claws of steel

Taunting me
Piercing deeper toward my heart

I will not die
For it is misery
Not murder
This creature sees as art

He whispers in my ear
About the screams
I could not hear

My loved ones fell
While I slept
From chest to chest
This monster leapt

I try to yell
But its all in vain
My body sleeps
Yet I feel the pain

I meet him
Once a night
You see

My torture for sleep
My sentence
Eternity

When I wake
And I can't breathe
I know he's there
I wish he'd leave

His body a shadow
Both liquid and air

His eyes
Blaze with hellfire
Telling lies to ensnare

No face
And no features
With a voice like gravel
Both sharp and soulless

There must be a way
To escape
To control this

Until I find it
He waits in my mind
For the door through my dreams
So my bones he may grind