Death To Me

I walk through the dark cemetery
Shadows moving in on me
I see a gravestone
Etched is my name on it's cold dark surface
I wonder how I have gotten here
Nothing but black thoughts fill my head
A frigid wind blows over my face
With each step I take
My skin turns a corpselike gray
As I slow to a stagger and
A shiver courses down my spine
A raven cries to me and I run.
I sense warmth on my wrist.
Pyretic red blood streams off the ends of my fingers.
Look down to behold a crimson flow.
My life... Desiccating away
With each breath I inhale
The stake in my heart more agonizing.
I fall to my knees, let out a scream.
I pinch myself... It isn't  a dream.

W. Ganong