butters
High on a Hill
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insidious
A dog barks
a creature screams
we're worried something's out there
in the midnight forest
Surrounded by walls
gentle as comforting arms
we peer from blind windows
arm ourselves with pistol and flashlight
Certain in their protection
we step from our refuge
gravel's murmurs silence
only our breath in short clouds of sound
The beam's brilliant and focused
shadows dance sharply as we tread
imagination plays tag with itself
between bole and shrub
Fear's tendrils twine around ankles
and the night grows denser, wider, darker
beyond the light's unstable stare
the gun grows heavier, hands shake
yet, invested
still we cling
A dog barks
a creature screams
we're worried something's out there
in the midnight forest
Surrounded by walls
gentle as comforting arms
we peer from blind windows
arm ourselves with pistol and flashlight
Certain in their protection
we step from our refuge
gravel's murmurs silence
only our breath in short clouds of sound
The beam's brilliant and focused
shadows dance sharply as we tread
imagination plays tag with itself
between bole and shrub
Fear's tendrils twine around ankles
and the night grows denser, wider, darker
beyond the light's unstable stare
the gun grows heavier, hands shake
yet, invested
still we cling
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