Moo Ha Ha Ha

MOO HA HA HAH! (with kudos to E.A. Poe) There was an eerie peal I knew When just a reborn child I sat listening Listening for that cast iron steel-gray midnight shattering clang CLANG! Once - Twice - Then this macabre strain that would trip familiar space Motoring round my meatless inner skull Like a damn black hearse All Saints Eve should have explained – Some pumpkin-headed prankster In the belfry legs wrapped around the bell tower rope Smiling mischief – But NO! This was no call to worship Unless to pay homage to Bedlam’s King No church hymn this opus The foul Dies Irae struck into my very soul With nowhere to hide the tender flesh And now as the sun sets I cower in my cell Brain full of Draculaean horror Waiting WAITING! Listening Listening for those ghoul-mad midnight bells