Night

Sliding slowly
To a deep
And darksome state
Of tossing sleep
Where phantoms wail
And goblins peer
With baleful eyes
That feed my fear.
Burbles glurp
And gritty grinds
Send skin all crawling-
Torment blinds.
Dank and morbid
Drifts the shreds
Of strangling mists
that shroud my head.
As terror mounts
And mind feels shock,
I jolt awake.
Ah, welcome clock!