Moonlight Madness

Sitting alone in the light of the moon Twirling my glass of red wine I retreated back into my cocoon But still felt a chill up my spine Something flew by in front of the moon With a silhouette of a wide wing span Its feathers flapped slow as it sang a tune Its wings spread out in a fan Then off he went out into the night A raptor soaring in flight The environment alive in the moonlight Was an awesome yet fearful sight The quiet stillness of the midnight air Was a mystically charged atmosphere With all my senses alive and aware I wondered what next would appear The skeletal branches of a tree Looked grim in the luminous glow A leaf came loose and floated free To the leaf carpeted lawn below I closed my eyes and drifted to sleep And dreamed of a forest of trees And beyond the entrance further in deep The temperature dropped thirty degrees I snapped awake then in a flash With a feeling of foreboding And didn't really want to rehash The message too obscure for decoding I awoke to see in front of me The same old leaf shedding tree I thought I heard it speak to me But honestly, how could that be? I noticed the tree appeared forlorn My thoughts were definitely wild For it was only a honey locust thorn What some people often reviled I turned in for the evening after that Then heard a light tapping on the pane I saw it wasn't my Maine Coon cat That’s when I went totally insane A limb of that tree pointed towards me Like a finger of a human hand No more wine but Sleepy time tea For me, I'm sure you understand September 20, 2012