Wretched

It looked so peaceful in slumber, this beast that preyed on me so, my heart racing in fear as it came near and retreated just out of my reach, please let me kill you, let me end this now, we both know there is no future for you, but mine starts tomorrow and I can't go to sleep with the sound of your wings o’flappin in my ear, so towel swinging round and round you fly frantically in circles, the hunted one as I squeal when you come near, I hit you once and you go down, success is in my reach, but no, you're alive yet, crawling injured on the ground, your wings now useless, I swat you again and squat over you victorious, but it's ALIVE still! My heart, I jump and step while screaming, it's only a fly I know, but terror it'll follow me into my dreams, unless I let it rest now, be gone.