Robin Brown Poet Free verse

Robin's Inkwell Mysteries: The Secret of Thornbrook Wall

The shadows of Thornbrook
Hall stretched long across 
the floor,
Where visitors complained of
drafts behind the bedroom 
door.
Since eighteen hundred 
twenty- five, a phantom 
paced the hall,
A weeping woman trapped 
inside her former bedroom 
wall.
The mansion's brand- new 
owners felt a constant,
chilling dread,
As blood- red stains
appeared each night beside
their velvet bed.
The spirit could not rest in
peace, her soul forever 
bound,
Until the wicked truth of her
untimely death was found.
Her wealthy husband killed
her when she stumbled on
his shame:
He loved a handsome 
gentleman she did not care
to name.
To hide his secret male affair 
and keep his high estate,
He struck her down and 
sealed her in to face a
gruesome fate. 
He laid her bones behind the
brick and plastered up the
space,
Then told the town she fled
to France without a single 
trace.
For two long centuries she
screamed, a prisoner in the 
dark,
Leaving upon the hardwood 
floors a ghostly, charred 
footmark.
The new owners awoke to
hear a rhythmic, tapping 
sound,
As if a hand was knocking
from beneath the solid
ground.
The specter stood before
their bed, her pale hand
pointing high,
Guiding their eyes toward
the wall with a mournful,
hollow sigh.
She wrote the words in
freezing frost upon the
window pane:
"Break down the brick to find
my bones and wash away the
stain."
The husband took a heavy
axe and smashed the
crumbling stone,
Revealing a hidden hollow, 
space of mortar, dust, and 
bone.
Beside the skeleton there lay
a golden wedding ring,
And a leather- bound 
confession of the husband's 
wicked thing. 
The local papers printed out
the horror of her plight,
And gave the tragic lady's 
bones a proper burial rite.
Now justice has been finally 
served for a crime of long
ago,
The phantom's spirit fades 
away, no longer filled with 
woe.
At last the heavy, chilling 
dread dissolved into the air,
Leaving the quiet bedroom 
walls at peace and stripped 
of care.

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