An old enemy returns in the dead of the night

It has been so many many years

Since I had a dream that caused me such fear

Fell asleep on my back after eating potato chips

Then into sleep paralysis a nightmare/night terror I slipped

As though chained to the bed I could not move or speak

Something evil was lurking my soul to seek

Dreaming I'm in a house a monkey-like creature on my back

His eyes were big and round his skin was jet black

I ran here and there but had no success

Trying to throw him off this was an unholy mess

It opened its mouth tried to speak but there was no sound

I kept looking ahead and would not dare turn round

I tried shaking it off but the thing held tight

to my neck as I dealt with fight or flight in the night

Running through the house I saw my grandma in a bed

In the woke part of my mind I knew she was long dead

In the dream I ask her to free me from the feind

She looked at me rolled over and went back to sleep again

The monster held on as I ran through the house

I prayed and screamed to be free of the louse

I tried to cry out "In Jesus Name"

But no sound from my voice ever came

All the while I knew I was lying in bed

Having a night terror that I for years filled me with dread

I ran down a hall to a different room

Filled with fright tension and gloom

My mother was lying across a bed

My mind in real time recalled she too was dead

I went to the bed and turned my back to her

She snatched the thing off my shoulder and it was all over

Still trapped by night paralysis I wiggle my toe

It doesn't wake me and I'm filled with woe

Something comes near and clasps my hand

I struggle to wake and finally I am

Startled by pressure on my shoulders where the fiend hung tight

Relieved it was just where my pillow curled under me during the night

My hand hurt where during the nightmare it had been strongly clasped

I realized I had been holding the cover in a tight grasp