Prelude 2 - I know you

I know you.

The distant shouts and wild houndly whine

Sending shivers down my spine.

And you: creepy crawling up the wall

Fearful many legged thing.

You too.

I know you:

With your reptilian lidless staring eyes;

Threatening me with some abduct daring lies.

Knowing that you could my side prod and yet

Shuffled down beneath blanket hidden gaze

Could levitate me through window raised.

But you do not.

You are not there.

At 3am on a sleepless night..

Your age doesn’t reassure you.

Though it’s irrational too.

I know you.

You have always been there.

As we get older you morph into another shape

Dressed in a flowing diaphanous ugly black drape.

And you.

The ghostly wisp of apparition smoke

Yet my closed eyes won’t see you.

There is no menacing creaking of the outside door.

It’s just the whispering  breeze and nothing more.

I know you all.

I know you.

You are dark.