Poetry: Something in the Night

NOTE: This is being turned into a song by my band, FIPHSD.


I woke up late in the middle of the night
In one of the coldest sweats I've ever felt
I couldn't remember why I was stricken by fright
I figured I'd get up to walk just a little bit

As I crept through the dark and wet yard
I realized I had begun to travel rather far
I looked up at that cold and bright moon
I had this curious feeling I was being watched

I turned over my shoulder
and I noticed that up in the pines
There was something up there
There were two fiery eyes

I froze just for a moment in my fear
I wondered what I was doing here
Why had I trekked ever so far?
Just to be doomed 'neath the stars

I turned back and ran for my home
I could feel the beast's flapping wings
His shadow before me from moonlight shone
And I'm running so fast the wind it stings

I felt as if my heart would leave my chest
My only chance was to give it my all
There was not a single moment for rest
I had to get away from it's gaping maw

I felt the warm embrace of death
And I woke in the middle of the night
In the coldest sweat I've ever felt
And this thing never sat quite right

Something calls me in the night
It's always just out of the light
Something calls me in the night
This thing never sat quite right