Lo! Beware! The Nightman has cometh again.
His long pincered legs used to scuttle towards me,
black nightmares pumped fast through carnivorous veins,
as his exoskeleton: the moon, enslaved.
He spindled his thread, turned my skin gray, my eyes red.
Lethal snares held tight a soul begging for sleep.
And now the Nightman cometh slow.
But why? What hath changed?
He prowls the maze of my bedridden brain:
his thin legs limp one after two after eight,
his once strong silken web has sputtered, stalled out,
his shining armor seems to be in eclipse.
It is a parasitic relationship
and the host is dying out. .
Nov 10, 2019
Nov 10, 2019 at 6:53 PM UTC
Lo! Beware! The Nightman has cometh again.
His long pincered legs used to scuttle towards me,
black nightmares pumped fast through carnivorous veins,
as his exoskeleton: the moon, enslaved.
He spindled his thread, turned my skin gray, my eyes red.
Lethal snares held tight a soul begging for sleep.
And now the Nightman cometh slow.
But why? What hath changed?
He prowls the maze of my bedridden brain:
his thin legs limp one after two after eight,
his once strong silken web has sputtered, stalled out,
his shining armor seems to be in eclipse.
It is a parasitic relationship
and the host is dying out. .
The phrase "The Nightman Cometh" is taken from the TV show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
