Scary Poem

 Poetics Aside Prompt; Write a Scary Poem

I feel your body next to mine

It is cold

I reach to turn on a lamp

But there is no light

I strike a match

It will not flare

The darkness closes in

A suffocating wall

I press my face to your cheek

But I cannot feel you

Or see you

We are cold

I hear my children crying

Somewhere

Out there

In the darkest dark

Alone

They tell us there will never be

Another morning

And the sun

Has died…

© Janet Martin

Don't you love

warmth

and light?

Last night I turned out all of the lights, and as I walked to my room with my arms stretched out in front of me the darkness felt like a wall closing in...