Klaus Drowsy (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

When the night does come dark with patches of shadow
and the tiredness so slowly are sneaking up on me,
then there is something that sneaks in at the window
a gnome with a striped bag and he is bended
and outside I hear the two big dogs growl
but they both do walk away with drooping tails
go lie down and groan at their kennel at the water-barrel
and then there is no sign of him
where the golden-yellow streetlight does alone burn outside
but there is no kind of danger
and then I wonder why so slyly he does sneak in,
my eyes do feel suddenly itchy and heave as if full of sand
when almost out of vision I notice a vague movement
but there is nothing just the streetlight gleaming.

© Gert Strydom