LATE ONE EVIL NIGHT
Late one lonely night
Unsuspecting innocents,
Stroll the baneful streets
Blind to malignant evil,
Death creeping ever closer.
Midnight callers creep
Through a dark, lonely bedroom,
Unwary sleepers
Wake to discover horrors,
Moving slowly toward them.
Night evil beckons
Tall, hooded strangers shamble
Through dark, lonely streets;
Unsuspecting strangers wait
As death creeps ever nearer.
Evil children prowl
Through the midnight alleyways
Darkness is their home;
Unsuspecting adults walk,
Up to the deadly urchins.
The odour of death
Wafting along in the breeze,
Predators stalking
Through the moonlight, waiting for
Unsuspecting passers-by.
Midnight breezes howling
Sound like unseen carnivores,
Nervous people hide
From unseen dangers without,
Blind that danger lurks within.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Unsuspecting innocents, Stroll the baneful streets Blind to malignant evil, Death creeping ever closer.
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Written on March 03, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 816 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3 |
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