Where The Day Meets The Night

It's a poem about monsters.

Maybe, in that little time, where the day meets the night...

Where the shadows are cast long upon the ground,

Where the whole sky lights up in a world of orange and pink,

Broken only by the black outlines on the horizon.

Where the sun begins to fall,

Where the birds cease their song,

Where the children go inside, away from the monsters of night.

Where the air loses its warmth, and turns cold,

Where the creatures of the night come out,

Growling, snarling, starting the chase.

Where those fearful,

Who still believe the world is good,

That monsters don't exist,

Yet carry lanterns, carry knives, carry safety,

Lock the doors.

Don't look outside.

Where those broken people see wolves,

See ghosts and witches and

All the worst things you fear.

Where we see the monsters

You lock out.

The ones we battle every night.

Where they reach, catch us, bite us,

Growling, snarling, ending their chase...

Tearing us apart, our blood on your hands.

Everyone knows monsters don't exist.

Everyone knows you're safe

in your cozy house at night.

Everyone knows......

Except me.

Reviews

[TheLastThingYouSee]

Awesome poem (:

[Marie]

But if you carry your wolfsbane your garlic, your cross and never forget your gun with its silver bullets, you'll be perfectly safe.

[five_stars]

Nice poem

[Zap-the-awesome]

Very good

[James Hanna-Magill]

"Everybody knows. That's how it goes" (Leonard Cohen). Look him up singing on Utube.

Cy you catch well the change from day to night; from the light to the dark; from knowledge to fear; from good to bad; from warm to cold; from the unbroken to the broken; from everyone but you.

It's personal. It's graphic and it belongs in the world of Halloween.

Perhaps you might wish to adapt this so that each stanza works off a different word as does the first with 'where 'and the last with 'everyone'. In that way it may become more hauntingly melodic.

Just my view.

Your poem.

I am not driving this.

You are.

Well done. I would like to see more of your writing.

People need to to read and review or we all are dead and it isn't just the night that leaves us all in fear. I hope you find more people reviewing you or worse than the devils of the night we will all die of compalcency. You deserve better of us all.

Best wishes,

James

[Cookie]

Making each stanza work from a different word is a really neat idea! I just might do that.
read moreMaking each stanza work from a different word is a really neat idea! I just might do that.

Thank you. :)

[James Hanna-Magill]

Just a thought (hopefully constructive or if not that positively provocative), Kindest Regards, James