It was that moment when I slept
Upon the darkness and dream,
Night
Light
Ward
Them away keep me safe, I would
Say this every night,
I would speak these words everyday.
For the words not spoken
The words speak unchecked in the darkness

"Child sleep well,
"Child dream silent,
"Never to awaken again,

Suffocated in the night,
I was only seven years old,
Then I rolled and my night light caught
Upon the shadows feeding on the walls
I breathed I inhaled light that night.
Never again would my sleep slumber in
Nightfall,
Darkness,
Twilight
Was their time to plunder upon the unsuspecting
For with eyes sealed to that which
Festers in the shadow.
I lie in the tomb of obscurity,
Lighting the beacon that my dreams search for,
Voices still speak in those moments between
Light
Darkness
Obscurity

"No longer child,
"No longer innocent,
"We will consume you upon lights fall,

I sleep in darkness but every night their voices
Pierced into my subconscious

"Light is life,
"Darkness is death,
"Never shall I ever awake,

I revise this with every night fall,
They may try to feast on my fears in those
Moments of twilight.
But I will always sleep restless motions,
Always  will  I slumber safe in the light.