Tell Me a Story

Tell me a story, tell me a story,

Of numinous entities that come at night,

Of eldritch figures that gibber in light.

Tell me a story, tell me a story,

Of aeons dispelled from the histories, from time,

Of ages forgotten, of cave paintings and rhymes.

Tell me a story, tell me a story,

Of ambivalent maidens, of onanistic regrets,

Of chests of gold and pirates. Arr.

Tell me a story, tell me a story,

Of whence the witch goes to find eyes,

Of ghouls who WHAM at the ceiling tiles.

Tell me a story, tell me a story,

Of the window, the curtains, the height,

Of the wrong that, henceforth, is right.

Tell me a story, tell me a story,

Of teeth-clenching children awake in their beds,

Of monsters that gather behind their sweet heads.

Tell me a story. I’ll tell you a story,

Of babes of the future, presently napping

Of ye and y’all with those fingers snapping.

Poetry Blog link: https://madpoetrytuesday.blogspot.com/2018/07/tell-me-story.html

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