Another Sleepless Night
By: JoAnna Martin

I lie awake, avoiding the morning light.
I’m all alone, another sleepless night.
I sit with shades drawn as the hours pass,
wondering how long these nightmares will last.
When I dare to sleep, you enter my dreams.
I’m under your hypnotic trance it seems.
I know your soul took another body in the night.
I saw it in a dream, one of those rare prophetic sights.
Each time I close my eyes, I am pulled from this world
as I watch my life unwind like a coiled ribbon unfurled.
I journey to the place where the shattered ones walk,
where the silent spirits watch, and the lost souls talk. 
I hear the voices echo from beyond the darkness,
the most menacing sounds rising from the black abyss.
The words spoken penetrate deep into my soul.
I don’t know what’s happening, I’m losing control.
A ghostly sensation moves throughout my body
as I feel the fear rising up from inside me. 
The voices, I hear them from all possible directions,
the coldness running through my veins like a lethal injection.  
And it's you they speak about, their frantic warnings,
and the danger I face while you prey until morning;
how your soul enters a body, leaving nothing but a shell;
how their minds become a fatality with no more secrets to tell.
So now at night I stay awake to guard myself from you,
hidden in the shadows to keep you from destroying my soul too.
In the darkness I sit alone and wait for you to strike,
not knowing where you are, or what your new form looks like.
I know living my life in fear is not the best thing to do
but its better than letting myself be taken by you.


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