The hallway lit
by candlelight,
Dark shadows flicker
in the night,
The web weavers on
the window sill,
The draft that comes creeping
gives such a chill,
A shadow standing
at the end of the hall,
A woman in a hospital gown
ever so tall,
She stared with eyes
as black as night,
Looked deep in my soul
with malice and fright,
Slowly I just
backed away,
Turned ever so slowly
without delay,
I reached the stair
and with a fright,
A man was hanging
from the ceiling light,
His eyes looked on
from an empty soul,
Dark eyes you could drown in
those eyes could capture you whole,
Slowly I crept
down the stair,
Each creak like thunder
telling the dead I was there,
At the foot of the stair
lay the dining room,
Where shadows move around
seen in spite of the gloom,
To the right
there is the study,
A man was killed there
known affectionately as Buddy,
I opened the door
can’t believe what I see,
A total massacre
lay before me,
Blood spatter
across the ceiling and walls,
His head lolls to one side
where more blood falls,
His neck slit viciously
from above,
It was his wife the villain
she was incapable of love,
Turn and slowly
towards the kitchen I go,
My footsteps are heavy
and ever so slow,
This house is alive
it feeds off a persons clean soul,
It will grind you down slowly
then suck you up whole,
Past the woman at the sink
her insides hanging out,
Multiple stab wounds
yet she didn’t shout,
Her husband a drunkard
control freak insane,
She had smiled at a delivery man
that was her crime her end game,
Out the back door I go
as fast as can be,
Of this house and this nightmare
I need to be free,
But the house has left it s mark
got it s hands on my soul,
And as I’m hit by a car
it greedily swallows me whole….
.x.