Far beyond the Shadows reach
I Lay My Body Down
As Sunset Looms a ghastly pale
Upon the shuttered town

So far down the virulent scale
Of lesser evils looming
So for seemingly ages now
All walls intent to be entombing

Watchful eyes from darkened rooms
Peer surreptitiously through frayed curtains
Fear grips the solid throat
Of once hardy men - now deemed uncertain

No refuge holds least some disregard
For want of necessities embolden those
Who scurry forth with furtive eyes
In search of sustenance before the shadow grows

One touch of this spreading darkness vines
Will pull a soul from its human host
When sunsets waning light slices through deadwoods tines
Though not since death fortook the once forest green
Has even one succumb to this horrid fate
Of that they fear the most... And yet
It hovers over as a most fearsome ghost