The Child's Mind

The darkness inside grows, by my own doing,

Bringing about outer fear,

Speeding all around me,

Day and night, the shadows forever prevail,

I know not of their origin but know only the child inside is responsible.

As the night fell and the noises ceased,

The figures started to stir, shuffling and shouting around me,

Most dare not get near, but tonight the whispers, singing and thuds do just enough to frighten,

My restlessness grows with them, destroying my last to be renewed.

A face forever remembered, different from the rest,

The luminous man moved slowly as his wrinkled hand reached out to grasp me,

Only a slight glimpse of humanity in his callous eyes,

I learned this brings about true fear, the sinister pleasure my terror brought him,

Oddly human in nature.

The noises, words and people scorched into my memory,

These are no longer of my child's mind, the adult has taken over.