The Empty

This is the third night in a row I've had these terrible dreams...I begin to fall in my sleep and pass through old places I've been before, place after place location after location. The sounds and smells of each place as I literally fall though. The falling begins to slow and I feel as if I'm floating there but I know I'm slowly falling still as I can see the last old location drift out of view... then there is nothing and I'm surrounded by emptiness and darkness. I can the ocean and I can smell the salt water but there is nothing This empty place… . What is it, is it a part of me? Seconds go by.… or maybe minutes I really can't tell but my falling has nearly stopped. Trying to orient myself against the fall I think I rolled over but still nothing but emptiness but wait... what is that I see. Why it almost looks like a pair of eyes peering at me from the empty.

I called out "who's there, I can see your eyes!! I know you're there" but nothing... from the empty they are just there… looking at me. The empty begins to vibrate I can feel it around me, everything is shaking and the sound is getting louder and louder. The eyes are coming towards me and getting bigger and bigger, the emptiness stopped shaking and I uncover my ears... the eyes… they are gone. I'm looking every where around me and only the empty remains. Then just behind me I hear a growl and quickly try to turn but the creature is right here, I hear it again and then see a flash of teeth and then searing pain of those teeth sinking into my leg Then I suddenly sit up as I'm forced out of my sleep and realize that it was just a dream. The empty was all in my head, I rolled back the cover almost expecting my leg to be all torn up. But nothing, so 1 jump up and step off my bed and begin to fall again screaming for help as my bedroom vanished into the distance, it was a ruse and I'm still in the empty being devoured by the creature... Into the belly of the creature I go and I find myself looking down on me in a store from time ago. The store was a small corner shop that had enough room for a couple people at a time so it was quite a squeeze getting in, I remember this store and I remember being there with this over shadowing uneasy feeling.

There I stand in line with one other person but I remember feeling like I was standing in a crowd.. and at first I couldn't see them or maybe I didn't want to see them, but there shadows everywhere moving around me and the store. It looks the empty has covered a bunch of people and they are... they are following me, the creature bites down and I feel the pressure but when I open my eyes I'm in my dining room making myself a plate and the empty men are every where in my house, standing.... just standing. I see myself walk back to the kitchen and none of them even move, I'm walking right through them. But then two of them move... I had a black out that day. My body hits the floor and I can see myself floating there... suddenly I erupt from the room and out the window leaving my body on the floor and all of the Empty men follow me except the two that moved. One of the jumped into my body as the other one circled around it. It tried to get up but struggled with my body. I can hear my laughter as my... spirit I guess makes its return, the empty man popped out of my body and just stood there as I fell softly back into my body, then the pressure from the creature grew and I yelled out in pain before opening my eyes again.. Now I can see myself in my room, but wait... this is today I'm laying on my bed powering through a youtube video when I drift off and again as I'm laying there I see myself rise out of my body and look down on myself but this time its different.

The Empty darkness is beginning to swirl around my feet and the Empty men are appearing everywhere in my room, then one of them jumps into my body right in front of me. I reach for my body but its elusive to me as I'm being pulled into the Empty by the Empty covered hands reaching from the swirl beneath me... and then I begin to fall... and fall... in the empty.