An Encounter of Sorts

The cave was snow covered and had a lot of ice

seemed eeerie as if nothing in there could be nice



Burst in,with little thoughts as how to spend the night

other than cover my body and tuck in tight





Little did I pay heed to tell tale signs

of something or someone who had made it home





I slept like a log until whence something brushed me

as if I was on a boat and had been pushed into the sea





Woke up groggy eyed scared and fumbling

I thought I could hear thunder rumbling





Was it rain or was it snow

In the darkness it was hard to know





The torchlight was feeble and little could I make

But no doubt what I was staring at was a very big shape





It was tall and broad and heavy at the seams

I had to pinch myself to wake up from my dreams





Eyes gleaming in the dark staring at me, it stood there

To think now, I mistook it for a very heavy bear





But bear it was not, more like a giant ape

with shoulders so broad that made me gape





Of some outlandish breed and facet of imagination

by product of perhaps an unintended chemical reaction





Ten feet and more, hairy to the core

Each step it took, the ground shook





The legs were as big as trunks, the feet even more

Reminded me of some prehistoric dinosaur





A snarl a growl, a brute show of force

there was little time to react, except perhaps show remorse





What happened next I know not,for when I woke

neither was there cave nor was there snow





They found me in the chasm, by some strange stroke of luck

By the side of a rock, dazed, bruised and cut





And yet no bodily harm, nor savage tear

except for a set of footprints they found in the rear





Footprints they thought were of extraordinary size

to think that despite all that, he would have been nice





Of some eerie unknown connection between man and beast

with no intention to hurt but only to tease.