{"sf1_id":352210,"sf2_id":"Jew82ZVm","title":"Mute","author":"Xandie","words":241,"posted_at":"2012-03-10T21:29:00.000Z","tags":["Angst","Dark","Poem","Psychological"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/352210-mute","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Jew82ZVm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/0d/e7/0de71fc1-99b9-4928-a727-f5e16a6de7c6","description":"I wrote this after a friend and coworker of mine told me about a situation like this, in which she'd dreamt something horrible about a person she'd never met but upon seeing the woman, could not bring herself to tell her...","content":"The dreams are frightening\n\nYou lay awake for hours\n\nPraying for the peace of slumber\n\nThat will not come\n\nWhen you close your heavy eyes finally\n\nThe dreams are waiting\n\nAs they always are\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe shadow of a man\n\nThe glint of a blade's edge\n\nThe shrieking of a woman you do not know\n\nYet she is familiar\n\nSomething awful is taking place\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe shadow moves\n\nThe knife arcs\n\nAbruptly, the shrieking halts\n\nGiving way to the fateful gasps of last breath\n\nThere is blood\n\nRivers of it, it seems\n\nYou want to help\n\nTo flea\n\nTo call out at least\n\nBut you remain motionless\n\nYour voice stays trapped within your throat\n\nMuted in the shadows\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou wake\n\nThe sun is rising\n\nDawn is on it's way\n\nAnd so are you\n\nTo another day of work\n\nThe tedious monotony of your job\n\nIs both comforting and disturbing\n\nYou greet the many patrons\n\nEach face bleeding into the next\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nUntil you look up suddenly\n\nTo find the woman\n\nStraight out of your nightmares\n\nStaring back at you\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nTime stills\n\nYou knew she was familiar\n\nYou'd seen her before\n\nYou want to say something\n\nYou should\n\nTell her about the dream\n\nWarn her about the shadows\n\nThe man\n\nThe knife\n\nThe blood\n\nSomething\n\nAnything\n\nBut your words stick, bitter on your palate\n\nLeft mute once again as she disappears out the door.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCopy-written to Xander Bradeshaw\n\n  \n  \n\n"}