Sandman

sorenbarrett



Oh little children

So small and so sweet

I come with the darkness

You to greet

 

I'm inside your pillow

Like the drone of flies

I smell like flesh rotting

Don't open your eyes

 

I'm under your bed

In the dark of the night

I come out of the cellar

I'm the shadow of fright

 

I wait in your closet

Until you're asleep

To crawl under your covers

Your breath to keep

 

I'll burrow under your skin

Lay eggs while you rest

When the larva hatch

They'll burst out of your chest

 

I'll bore into your ear

To get inside your head

To steal your dreams

To bring back the dead

 

Years of your life

With your soul I'll eat

Suck up your warmth

Gag you with your sheet

 

See the goose flesh

Do you feel cold?

Crippled and stiff

I look so old

 

My skin is wrinkled

My hair matted and white

Come closer little one

Are you afraid I'll bite?

  • Author: sorenbarrett (Offline Offline)
  • Published: April 5th, 2023 05:40
  • Comment from author about the poem: It has always been an attraction for small children to hear scary stories and for adults to tell them.
  • Category: Gothic
  • Views: 23
  • User favorite of this poem: Abby1234.
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Comments5

  • arqios

    Just mulled on this last week and how even the kids around us these days are wide-eyed and expectant of a good scare!

    • sorenbarrett

      Thanks Cryptic for the review and comment. My kids always used to ask for creepy bedtime stories now they wont let me tell them to the grand kids.

      • arqios

        So true. My nan was of a different sort and used to love retelling spooky stories from her childhood. She was cool that way.

      • MysteryGhost

        I really like how you made the Sandman take on a boogeyman like character. The only times I have really heard of the sandman it is in a nice light, but you took it into dark. Very nice poem.

        • sorenbarrett

          Thanks so much for your review and comment. If I understand properly, in Germany, the Sandman takes on this property.

        • 2781

          It was scaring me for a moment.

          • sorenbarrett

            Thanks so much for the review and comment.

          • orchidee

            Now did I give you permission to post that video of me singing on a bad-hair day?! lol.

            • sorenbarrett

              Was that you? I thought that it was an old girlfriend of mine. Thanks for the review Orchidee

              • orchidee

                Oh lol, thanks SB.

              • L. B. Mek

                (we need only lookup that 'little red riding hood', tale
                amongst many others, to realise
                those true horror origins
                of so many beloved lullabies)
                such wonderful flow, dear Poet
                thank you



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