A-Friend Wins Splash Challenge December 2004

Congratulations goes to A-Friend (aka Earl) for his poem "Twas The Night Before
". Honorable Mention goes to Vonarmstadt for her poem "Freedom". Both from SplashHall Poetry.

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE


It was the night before I saw you, and all through my heart,
Many feelings were stirring, the realities were quite stark.
I tried to relax while taking great care,
Realizing that soon you would be there.

I was nestled all snug in my bed,
With visions of you dancing in my head.
I had on my jammies, and a book on my lap,
And was about to settle for a long nights nap.

When all of the sudden I heard such a clatter,
I sprang straight up to see what was the matter.
Away to the bathroom I flew in a flash,
Turned on the cold tap and my face I did splash.

It was a full moon and a night full of snow,
Shadows came at me that I didn't know.
I was wondering what was happening here,
But I dreaded the answers should they appear.

There was one small shadow, lively and quick,
I thought for a moment this must be a trick.
More rapid it moved, and more of them came,
While it shouted and whistled and called them by name.

Now Fear! now Mistrust! now Uncertainty and Confusion!
Let us get together and cloud his vision!
To his head we must go! Let us not stall!
We must get to him! We must make him fall!

Away from them I wildly tried to fly,
They placed every obstacle before me, theses shadows were quite sly
I continued to flee, oh if I only knew,
What are these shadows and what are they up too?

Then in a blink I fell for a loop,
More shadows gathered, while others went poof.
I threw up my hand and tried to turn around,
When one large shadow stepped up with a bound.

It had no shape from its head to its foot,
It stood there and stirred, all dark as soot.
It made one move, it took one step back.
Then it started to speak with a voice that did crack.

Its eyes were like fire, glowing red as cherries.
Still stirring at me, menacing, not merry.
What looked like a mouth, exposed fangs in the glow,
What was going to happen, I just did not know.

It bent over and bared its teeth,
And oh how its breath did reek.
It was faceless and round and even quite smelly,
And by now I'm shaking like jelly.

It was cold and clammy and not very jolly,
I wiggled and squirmed, but escape was pure folly.
I turned and twisted being full of dread,
I thought for a moment it would bite off my head.

It began to speak; its words pierced my heart,
I listened intently; its words gave me a start.
It spoke eloquently and with great prose,
Then it nodded and yanked me up to my toes.

With one mighty leap it ran down the hall,
Leaving me these words while taking a great fall;
"It's your own insecurities that's giving you this fright,
Wake up you fool, you're having a bad night!"

© Spinner Sr.

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