Sleep my dear

Hello my dearest,

Do you miss the way my body squirmed at your touch, the way my muscles involuntary convulsed with every tattered breath of your passion?

Is your weak and weary soul wondering how the words you now read appeared while you were showering?

You heard not a sound while scrubbing sweat from your chiseled adonis body.

Try wiping those cobwebs of fear away from your troubled mind, as you hastily erase the words smeared across your mirror. Do they mean as little to you as I did?

The difference is, I will not dissipate with a simple swipe.

At night I watch as you toss and turn. The scratching upon your window is not the tree branch you pretend it to be. They sound like fingernails raking across the thin pane of glass.

The same nails that tried to rip your flesh.

Has your sleep, that once came easy, become elusive like the false truths you once spewed forth. A bed holds no comfort under a blanket of deceit.

Sleep nought my dear, close not your eyes lest they be forever shut.

Finally, the lies of your benighted mind have become blurred with guilt.

Do you see me in the shadows, glimpse me across the street? I am the whisper you hear in a crowd, I am the shade who stalks you as you walk at night.

No light can banish me. I am because of you. I am a creation of your design.

My dear, why do you pace, back and forth like a rat in a cage? Why do your eyes glance at the basement door? What is down there? What do you keep hidden?

You know who it is.

I know the thoughts that run through that tiny brain of yours. If I dig her up and bury the body far in the woods her specter will vanish. Oh, if only that were true for you, I tell you now, it will do no good.

I shall tell you a secret. As you choked the last of my breath from my frightened body, I saw the light of an everlasting peace. I could have crossed yet chose to remain.

For I have all eternity and will make your life an eternity of Hell before you rest there forever.

So, try to ignore me, pretend I am an illusion, tell your self lies to stay sane. I will always be here. You never knew my name, you never knew any of our names.

Try to sleep my dear, dream of ways to finally rest. I shall be with you in this life, waiting until you close your eyes forever.

Hauntingly yours,

The girl

This is for the unofficial challenge, "Tales From Beyond..." linked here: