Catrina's Nightmare

She woke up with moonlight bathing her face
two panelled curtains half closed with curtail
her lover was skirting the balcony's edge
waiting for her with a grin on his face,
and a knife meant to sever and kill ;

She tip toed and picked up a candle with care
with a billowing gown trailing soft by her side
her heart was a thunder unmuted inside ;
Down to the stairwell she went with such fear
to hide in the dungeon of yesterday's year

The cobwebs just hugged her thin frame of young
as with trembling hands she started to pray
His madness ran seaward calling her name
but she crouched in a corner and held out so long
that the demons came out and ran havoc on him

They tortured his madness and sent him to hell
while the dungeon drew light as the 1st of July
She slowly crept up and went to her room
where the roses awoke to a morning's travail
she slept until noon and she slept until June.

The End.