Shadow Games Poem by bobby kramer jr.

I'm scared to go to sleep
I'm laying here wide awake
these shadows are stalking me
my body they want to take.
lights, they do not help
they don't keep them away
just gives them more shadows
to float into and play.
my eyes are always moving
watching every shadow on the wall
I don't want them to get me
there's one in the corner I just saw.
I'm clinching my rosary tighter
praying inside my head
it's starting to move closer,
to the feet side of my bed.
stay still, stay still, stay still,
is all that I could say
I'm trying to be as calm as I can
hoping, that it will turn away.
it disappears for a second
than I feel cold wind around my head
I close my eyes real tight
and brace for whatevers ahead.
I opened my left eye slowly
to see whatever I could see
the figures right next to my stand
which is right next to me.
It floats back to the corner
and back into the wall
this isn't the last time I'll see them
not even, not at all.