Wait

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Wait

“I hear whispers,

You mean you don’t?

In that shadow-

Tell me you won’t!

Don’t investigate-

What do you mean, a door?

No I won’t follow.

Fine. Tell me more.

Wait, I understand them.

They say- oh, crap.

Don’t go in!

I’m telling you it’s a trap!”

Not a single scream was heard,

The foolish child went in anyway,

And the friend, forever more,

Would always be heard to say:

Waiting, waiting in shadows deep,

Seeming in the maw of sleep,

Do come closer, if you dare,

It’s not like anything’s really the-

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