Archive for February, 2013

In that moment of fear

liftarn_Owl_in_treeI am going to tell you a scary story.

So scary that I want you to close the curtains so I do not need to worry.

AND! Don’t dim the light, please DON’T touch the light. I will finish in a hurry.

Huh!? What was that?! ….. Oh nothing, just the sound of a lorry.

Now stay, don’t go and hear the story.

 

It was deep in the night

Nothing out there but the stars so bright

It was warm inside so I decided to go out and buy frost ice bite

I put on my shirt and step into my pants so tight

I stepped outside, the atmosphere was so quite

Few birds whistled, butts of insects  ignite

My shadow moved in its full height

Something moved very fast in the dark in white

I quicken my stairs trying not to have a full view of the site

 

Who goes there? What was that?

My heart sank in flat

My blood shot up fast

I cannot stand one on one with a ghost in a combat

Half way the path, should I go home or should I go to the Mart

The thing moved again like a flash so fast

Now looked like there was a grenade in my heart

Eyes open wide, looked up the branches and something up there like bats

It moved again, Oh it was a cat, white cat

 

I became calm but worrying

My heart was pumping

My head was spinning

My eyes were flashing and dazing

My footsteps were now jumping

Ok I turned to go home halfway the scary path, now running

 

Then I heard it

Who?! … Something said, not in a wit

I paused, turned, froze, I was fully scared now I admit

Who?!… It said again and this time louder a bit

I started sweating in the cold like a brit

I turned left, turned right as I made for a sprint

 

I ran fast, feet not touching the ground

My leg touched something, BANG! my face, whole body down

My eye spinning round and round

A big who from the same sound

 

Raised my head and OMG!! It was an owl

I felt the pains in my bowel

If only I could find a stone in the dark for the owl.

Don’t laugh, it is not funny when fear grips you, just say AWWWW

 

(C) Derrick Ofori Donkor – 17th Feb. 2013

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