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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Scheme XXABC XXDDX EBAXC XXXXE XXFXX FXXXX XXX
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Characters 816
Words 121
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3

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