Manimalism I

I’m in a cold dark room

Filled up with cold dark hearts

Waiting for some unknown

To show me what’s my part

Never a stranger here

Never a shining light

Always some danger here

There is no wrong or right

Skeleton silhouette

Gliding across the wall

Someone he’s gonna get

Carry them down the hall

Into a secret room

Closing the iron door

Where they will ne’er return

Then he will come for more

I do not know what lies

Behind those muffled walls

Sometimes I hear machines

Spinning with gears and all

Sometimes a faded light

Shines from below the door

Sometimes a strangled cry

After a monster roar

I think of crunching bones

And other pleasant things

Like baby kittens caught

By rabid wolverines

Anything else would do

            Than the

Thoughts of what lies ahead

Only one path to choose

A future painted red

Here now he comes once more

Skeleton silhouette

Back to the iron door

Only this time I get

An instant glimpse of what

Lies on the other side

A sinking in my gut

There is no place to hide

Skeleton sees me stare

Gleeful that I’m perplexed

Suddenly I’m aware

He’s coming for me next