The night howls

An eerie sound.

Wind and rain

Keep beating down.

 

I can’t help but ponder

Just how much longer?

I must be getting home

For it’s very late.

 

But alas

What blocks my path?

I swerve

To avoid impact

 

I brace for the crash.

All I see is a flash.

Then memories

Straight from my past.

 

They are visions

Dark and bright.

I think I have

Found the light.

 

Time seems to freeze

While it beckons to me.

But I am held back

By unseen entities.

 

I awake

From this dream state

Petrified

And in a daze.

 

Brought back to reality

By piercing screams.

A body illuminated

By my car’s front beams.

 

Oh God

Could this really be?

Oh God

Why couldn’t it be me?