Masked Phantoms

What are you?
I feel you watching me.
Hidden in the veil of darkness.
My eyes, heavy. I want to let them close.
But I can feel still. Not only do you watch.
You wait. Wait for me to drift to sleep.
To my dreams, that you will turn to nightmares.
What do you want?
I fall faster and faster to sleep.
The nightmare has begun.
Running from you, crying out.
No one hears me. The darkness takes over.
A friend to you, and now my worst enemy.
In the nighmare you are careful to not show
Your real face. It changes.
I can feel my body struggling to wake up.
You wont let that happen.
"Let me go!" I shout. You lose your grip on me.
But only for a moment. I wake up and feel hands,
Pinning me down to the bed, I try to scream but can't.
The darkness chokes me quiet. I fight you.
But I lose and the nightmare begins again.
Only this time, you don't play fair, you uses faces,
Faces I know and trust, attacking me.
"Wake up!" I tell myself. But you wont let that happen.
You haven't finished yor game yet. I fight to breathe.
To see, to run faster, to wake up.
Dawn breaks, you let go. But you haven't left.
I still feel you watching me from the dark corners of
My bedroom. You wait, you wait for round two.
When I sleep again.