Night sky hew sabled deeper.

Tasting almost feeling the scent,

Crispness seemed to practically dent.

Up drainpipes into crevice cracks,

Form now solidifying into stacks.

*

Unfinished terrors from the night before.

Nightmares infiltrate to settle a scalding debt,

While the sleeper sleeps the Creeper crept.

Flesh assembles, form being clear,

Dreams increase its existance, lessening fear.

*

Already mullered from death fatality.

Banisters groan from pressure felt,

Carpet indents flamed and smelt.

Stacks now decay a rotting form,

Splaying around a corrosive storm.

*

Intent on this built-in revenge mission.

Silhouetted against darkness one step beyond belief.

Muffled snores distracting a disturbed sleep,

Creaking woodwork, rust queaking hinges now ajar.

Shafts of darkness flood in like smoldering tar.

Flowers wilted on the windowsill.

Pictures of family in guilded frames,

Blistered-smoldered with festering stains.

Snores stopped as if they knew,

Sleepers breath almost withdrew.

*

Yawning, the mystery now becoming clear.

Smothering bedclothes explaining all,

To the sound of the alarm clock's rescuing call.

The behemoth debts unpaid now out of sight,

To unfurl again the following night?

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