Spooked !

Spooked

The leaves lay listless on a moonless night

A wolf howls, enough to give you the fright

The screech of insects and the hiss of snake

On your bed you lay restless and awake

Slow and steady shadows play on your wall

Some shrink down as others grow tall

Disturbed you rise, strolling across the room

A black cat gives presage that night approached its doom

You open the window, wind blows and curtains fly

An owl perches in attention on a tree near by

The only faint light is the gleam of the countless stars

At a distance a man stands, his face blemished by scars

The figure disappears in the blink of an eye

Your heart pauses and your mouth goes dry

“Chimera it was”, you say to yourself

To find a torch you move towards the shelf

You find the torch but the batteries are dead

As the mirror shows your reflection without your head

You are dismayed and your muscles twitch in shock

Behind you a small girl stands in bloodstained frock

You open your mouth to shout but you just stammer

The door opens, a man in hood walks in with a hammer

All you want is to run, but your muscles won’t budge

In the man’s eye you can feel an old grudge

The little girl stares at you with a creepy smile

This is what happens when graveyard is within a mile

As the seconds pass by, you wait for the man to strike

Your eyes fall on his nameplate and it reads Mike

You realize Mike was dead few months back

Now his ghost with hammer stands in your track

Just then the girl raises a knife to stab your chest

Mike vexed faces her and says “stop, you pest! “

But the placid girl unconcerned, strikes to kill

In one swish Mike hits and reduces her to nil

Stupefied and bewildered you stand

As the girls cadaver sinks itself into the sand

As the ghost departs an eerie silence surrounds

Night restores its noise with the wail of the hounds

You slide down the chair suppressing a yawn

Daunted and scared you wait for the dawn

                                       ~ Surya

                                      Will-o’-the-wisp