Dark Shadows in the Room

One soft november night,
when she slept alone in bed.
She dreamed of simple things
inside her pretty head.
Dreams of dancing in a meadow,
filled with flowers in bloom.
Trees that swayed in another time.
A sun that bore over the day.
Outside her happiness little did she know,
What waited in the shadows of her room.
It longed for her purity with every
gasping breath.
To take her while she slept.
Only inside her dreams was
she truly safe and sound.
Not long in the meadow
did she dance her last dance
when the walls of her subconscious
begin to break down into reality.
The shadows fell over her meadow
like a blanket in the sky.
Burning all the beauty and painfully
she watched it die.
Would this dream turn into a nightmare
of one she could not escape.
Would this be her end
and long awaited fate.
As she drowned in a burning fire
he took her into the night.
Forever she'd lie awake in fear
for her own nightmare would forever
keep her trapped here.