In The Air Tonight

Can you feel it?


The way the winds have shifted

How the air is not thick

Making it hard to breathe

Something is coming

She knows

As she walks into the hotel lobby

For whatever reason

She doesn’t stay at home tonight

A decision that would impact her

For the remainder of her life



A man boards the elevator with her

He comments about how they’re both

Going to the same floor

Innocent as it seems



She gets off

He follows

Turns the same direction as she does

Then drops something

As she slides the key card in and turns the knob

He rushes her

Pushing her inside the room

She fights him with every bit of strength she has

He muffles her screams with his hand



Kicking

Punching

Clawing

She breaks free

Clothes torn

Stubbing out of the room



She runs down the corridor

Screaming for help from room to room

Floor to floor

Finally running outside into the street

A Good Samaritan calls law enforcement

Crisis averted

Or so it seems

Young lady still has trouble sleeping at night

Even when the air is calm

In the night



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