Nightmare: A Peculiar Place

I awaken and find myself within a peculiar place. Where am i? How did i get here? Why am i in this place? I ask myself all these yet do not expect an answer. Slowly i rise stretching out all the kinks and sleep i feel throughout my body. My eyes scan the area around me trying to figure out where i have awakened. An uneasy feeling begins to creep onto me as i absorb the environment. I feel cold, chilled, and frosted as if it were winter in mid December. There was no single drop of snow or a falling snowflake to be found. I bend down and rub my had across the grass. It shrivels and becomes a sickly black as i touch it. The air is stale and dead as if held prisoner within a container with no circulation. I find it hard to breathe in this place wherever i am. Trudging forward i begin to traverse this strange place. Almost dragging myself forward leaving a trail of black and brittle grass. Soon i find myself surrounded by trees. All gray and old yet strong and firm to the touch. They stand tall as if frozen in time. Frozen at their last moments in this world kept to stand here for eternity. I look up to find the skeletons of branches that once had lush bodies that flourished. I continue on forward finding it even harder to breathe. This uneasy feeling i felt before becoming more intense the further i go. For a moment i look back seeing the black trail of ravaged grass snaking through the trees. I think to myself that maybe i should turn back due to what i feel but, i can not. Something is compelling me to go forward. I feel as if i am being called beckoned for. So onward i walk through this petrified forest. Finally i can see the edge. A sense of relief comes over me but is soon overcome by caution. Around me i can hear voices calling at me. They swirl around me like a great maelstrom. Becoming loud and then soft. Harsh then turning kind. I call out to them pleading them to stop. yet they continue their assault. Soon i find myself running towards the clearing ahead. The uneasy feeling growing stronger. My breathe escaping me as the simple task of breathing itself becomes impossible. The voices grow louder and louder. They are all around me even with my head. Within my very thoughts. Flying for the clearing i run yet it doesn't become any closer. The distance seems to grow instead of shorten. Panic soon fills me making my mind lose itself. Why can i not escape? Is this a form of punishment for what i have done? Other maddening thoughts fill my panicked state. Finally i stop. No movement nor breathing could seen from my body. I begin to feel light, my vision slowly blurs into a dull gray and i slowly fall. The gray that fills my eyes then becomes an abysmal black. All feeling escapes me as if sucked out of my body by a great vacuum. Suddenly like a shock everything comes back. With a gasp i find myself breathing again. Easier than before. The uneasy feeling still there yet not as strong. Vision begins to return to my eyes and what i see fills my soul with dread. I look around at my surroundings. Once again i am where i first awakened. The grass the same as before. Growing sickly and black as i touch it. The sky the same dull gray it was before. Once again i can feel something beckoning me. Once again i find myself walking forward towards that forgotten forest that was frozen in time. Will i relive this again? Is this a dream? No… this is a nightmare.

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