Shadow

A shadow

Crosses the roadway before me

Out of the tangle of shrubs so scary

Silently it passes across

Fleetingly

Across the path

Manlike

Speeding fast

The narrow lane

Crossed in a flash

Mysterious, Threatening

Racing

Gone

Nervously

I peer and quiver

Up my spine
An icy shiver

Shuddering
I look too eager
Into the woods
I wish I'd never

IN your memory lurks a spectral invasion

A trick of the mind?

Or factual persuasion?

The wonder of the natural world

The menace of her twisted sister

 Odd

Impressions made that will last for ever

Did I see what has went quickly

Or did my psyche conjure up

A vision sent to try me

Shocked

I take flight 

Into the darkness of a moon less night

No street light furniture
Enhances the gloom

The tarmacadam slides from view

In the woodlands

Cries are shrill

Pheasants shriek like banshees from hell

Imagined

Or real

It does not matter

Inside of my head

Residing, ever

As it will always be

Hidden

He creeps
With stealth

Watching me

 My every step

When I sleep

He stands above me

Eyes squeezed tight

Lest he should take me

The cold embrace

Grabs and shakes me

He comes to seek

My being to keep
The taste of blood
Behind my lips

A white face in the linen peeks

I open one lid quite slowly

Just in case

I see what fear prepares me to envisage

The 'one' who takes us

Exists forever

Invisible from where I lie

He might be able

To see the white of my single
Twitching

Opened eye

If he appears my heart will race

He does me no favours

But steals me away

The shadow from another place

Harvester of this human race

He chops us when we least expect it

Sometimes noticed

When he tries to snare us

For more years of life

I plead for all

From this being brought to us

In the deepend of our life
Or untimely ceasing
While paddling in the ebbing waves
The withering sadness
In a prison of grief

He comes to us

As surely as birth

The seconds spent

Right here on earth

Extinguished buy his deathly breath

Touched we falter

Dying
Death

Don't look to closely

Into the night

When your perched

On the edge of dreadful fright

When nightmares come around to haunt you
Or darkness all around confronts you
When demons lurk within your mind
Screams are muffled
No ear can find
If silence is your greatest ally
Hush for now
No whispers escape
Lie quite still
He may go by you

In the woods a twig goes snap
The shadow passes
You may breath your last
The reaper stands and beckons you to him
Then off you'll go
Aggrieved and weary

In the ground
The earth it strangles
Roots entangled
Reach to grab you
If it has come to this
Future kills you

The past has gone
Today stands still
You forget in passing
The mortals rule
Come one day
And die another
The course of life
Runs with the swallow
Summers over
You must move on
In hallowed grounds
Never furrowed
No reaping harvest
For a reward


In the moments just before
Mnemonic flashes
Take you to where
You've been when walking
Seeing, feeling

Then in panic
The end comes knocking
He comes for you
In silent stalking.





AGL