Night Crawlers And You! .... {horror; Short; Fantasy? ? ; Death For Some] Poem by Bri Edwards

They came from deep inside the Earth’s bowels,
spreading fear among us, worse than any ten wolves’ howls.
Their forms can change, but rarely did.
They WILL find you hiding, no matter where you’re hid.

Yes! They’ve been around here and there over the ages.
Backward savages have stories of them, as do Medieval sages.
They harvest (usually) only those which they can eat,
before slinking back to the Earth’s bowels; they need the heat.

It’s really not easy (their appearance) for me to describe,
as most, who encounter them crawling, do not long survive.
It’s said they are “ghoulish green”, and, rarely, “blue”,
that their teeth are many, and dripping with goo.

But they rarely bite you till you’re already dead,
letting their corrosive goo do the deadly job instead.
Yes! They mostly come out at night, so you beware ……,
BUT some are ‘day’ crawlers also, away from their lair.

What little noise they make can be easily mistaken …..
for skittering rodents and tree branches shakin’.
You’ll never know where to run when they stand erect (your HAIRS) ,
since you usually see just ONE of them ……, BUT they hunt in PAIRS.

(Feb.2 & April 5, 2015)