Darkness reigns in dead of night,
keeping fingers of light at bay,
bringing to life signs of unease,
shadows flicker then die away.
Movement sensed, never seen
muted sounds build confusion,
adding to the nightmare feel,
‘til daybreak offers conclusion.
Penn©️2026
Switch the light on,💡 ….and enjoy your Tuesday, …💫
IN
my dream
there is a gate
I go thro’ quickly,
I don’t wait.
Ever onwards, walking fast
it seems no earthly shadow cast.
Alas my footsteps start to amble
held by clinging mud I scramble
slipping and sliding, starting to fall
there seems a voice, an echoing call.
Mud pulls me down, I take no breath
and just before I’m claimed by death,
a light shines as I’m pulled from harm
a cloak wrapped round to keep me warm.
A voice says loudly, ‘Why didn’t you see
the Red warning notice put there by me?’
I shake my head, my sad gaze to the ground
as I’m suddenly aware of a loud mocking sound.
I know it so well, being doomed to never escape,
I look Death in the face, … I am wearing his cape……
IN
my dream
there is a gate
I go thro’ quickly,
I don’t wait….
Penn©️2025
A Dark one I know, … But sometimes I like to delve deep into my brain, You never know what’s hiding there, …💫
You hide there deep in the shadows,
tell me, do you wait for me
to close my eyes,
breathe so deep,
to dream
finally?
Or
are you
something other
than a fear rising dark in my mind,
could you be standing watch o’er me,
a guide, without whom I’d search blind.
There is no answer forthcoming,
it seems that trust is the key,
you wait there deep
in the shadows,
I live in hope
you are
light,
an
aid
with which to
see.
Penn✍️…2025
Not too scary,…just a feeling of strangeness can become something more in the tenebrous depths of night, …💫
Darkness doesn’t worry me, It’s the absence of light. It’s the unknown quantity of what’s going bump in the night. It’s the unseen that scares you plus the suddenness of dread, blanketing your thoughts, as you pull the duvet over your head.
Penn✍️…2025
This be a corridor
leading who knowest where.
Shouldst ye enter? Pay heed and beware…
Note dire warnings of a dark soul lost, by ignoring
true danger, he doth pay a high cost. Laying in wait,
capturing souls he doth plan,
‘twixt darkness and light
be a bogeyman…
Penn…2025
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