Robert Lindley Poet Sonnet

Shadows Creep, I Lost Sleep

Shadows Creep, I Lost Sleep

Shadows crept into my room late at night
those dark nasty ones with razor like teeth
Defiant I soon dared to taunt and fight
slimy ones prancing down and underneath

Climbing ones scratched slowly up moving walls
fat, dark and nasty ones scattered about
Shrieking ones gave out wicked little calls
some cursed my soul with demonic shout 

Last came ever patient and slashing kind
creeping in so close to my shaking bed
Searching very slow for bare toes to find 
clawing bed sheets now wrapped over my head

A light blasts on from lamp on my nightstand
Strange, they vanished, I never lifted my hand!

Robert J. Lindley, 08 -22 -2014

Dark memories haunt my past.
I know such are dead and blessings are here 
now to last...

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Vera Duggan August 24, 2014 at 7:15 PM Great poem Robert, I think we all have demons lurking somewhere in our past, I know I wasn't that much of an angel, must have caused my parents grief, but look at us now all grown up, the thing is not to dwell on the past, take care my dear friend................Vera...........

Monterey Sirak August 24, 2014 at 8:33 AM Wow! This is dark and deep. The past does tend to stalk us in the shadows, and what descriptions you gave of them. Robert Lindley August 24, 2014 at 6:27 PM Thanks Monterey... I do dark so well because I lived a very wild life as a young man. Darkness tried to capture me and the battle went on for years. I only escaped by way of the Grace of God.....

Robert Lindley August 23, 2014 at 10:58 AM I wrote this about my past . Long ago , back when I was a wild child attempting to slay the world!

Robert Lindley August 23, 2014 at 10:53 AM I think perhaps I did not drink quite enough! A man "passed out", sees no demons, shadows and dark spirits! lol

Robert Gruhn August 22, 2014 at 9:32 PM hEY rOBERT, wHATEVER yOU wERE dRINKIN, i wILL pASS! ;)))