No Eggs After 10am

Shadow of Death

I awoke with a sudden jolt, like something or someone had hit me.  My breath was heavy and my heart was beating a mile a minute. A cold sweat had creped upon my skin "was this the time,"  I ask myself. Surely not.  How did the shadow find me here of all places.
I clamber to the drivers seat, I put my truck in gear I'll just have to out run it again. I see in my mirrors that frightful image.  The shadow passes along the parked truck s . Truck to truck it chases me.  "Always one step behind me aren't you?" I exclaim to the shadow.  "Well you wont catch me today."  I slam another gear and run up my rpm hoping to grab an empty lane to put the hammer down. I see from my mirrors I'm pulling away.  I know if i miss a gear, the shadow will catch me soon enough. I hit the big hole.... now sixty, sixty-five, seventy, seventy-five.  The roar of my pipes sing in the night air.  The low humble tone of money rolling down the the highway.

I clear my mirrors and see nothing in sight.  Two hours till day break and three to my destination. I can't believe how close it came to catching me this time.  What if i hadn't woke up?  What would the shadow of done with me?  A truck fire, a drunk driver,someone missing a red light, or worse maybe I would of fell asleep behind the wheel. I have to keep outrunning the shadow of death for I know someday it will find me and I won't awake.

North bound I-85 is no joke, but i can't take the chance of slowing down.  I notice through my right window the fleeting glimpse of his deathly image.  How he caught up with me so fast, with a frightful jerk I push the accelerator to the floor.  "How long has it been since I slept, I wondered to myself.  I don't have time for that right now.  I have to outrun this thing that haunts my dreams and stalks me at night.  "IT'S NOT MY TIME,"  I scream at the image. I have so much i want to do still..... 

I awoke with a sudden jolt like something or someone had hit me. My breath was heavy and my heart was beating a mile a minute. A cold sweat had creped upon my skin "was this the time..........