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Settled for the night

Half dozing in my easy chair

A sudden chill washed over me

Sent tingles through my hair

A feeling looming over me like being watched. Is someone there?

Shadows casting frightful scenes

Bad omens in the air

Getting up to go to bed

It's getting late it's in my head

Going down the hall I don't remember being quite as long

As I go on, I start to yawn

The lights are off the blinds are drawn

Tonight, I don't know where mind has gone

Sinister Misery, bane of my dread

Terror of night that's lurking underneath my bed

Spectral malevolence, mysteriously strange

Phantasmic presence that's left me deranged

Trembling exhausted waiting shaking in my sheets

Wondering what putrid ghastly horror will I meet

Apprehension irrational nearly panicked at my thoughts

Foreboding trepidation painting snares in which I'm caught

My mind is racing, thoughts are pacing, ever tracing

Fear encased me, shadow gazing in my room

The last I wanted was to be haunted, ever taunted

Spirits flaunting, I embrace impending doom

Sinister Misery, bane of my dread

Terror of night that's lurking underneath my bed

Spectral malevolence, mysteriously strange

Phantasmic presence that's left me deranged

Paralyzed in fear my pen is shaking as I write

Now terrified I'm startled more by each and every sight

To petrified to move I'm frozen stiff due to my fright

Waiting for the morning sun to vanquish the night

Sinister Misery, bane of my dread

Terror of night that's lurking underneath my bed

Spectral malevolence, mysteriously strange

Phantasmic presence that's left me deranged