I half woke to her rhythm increasingly strong A pounding in the distance and a presence very wrong Then I recognised the noise of the galloping hooves I feared for my soul but my body wouldn't move She came with a bound over moors, over gorse It was the night the sheep learned that the Devil has a horse Half asleep half awake I was locked in a transition Of hynopompic trance with a black satin apparition Her mane was all dressed in a web of darkling stars her Black hooves set with ragged bloodtipped barbs She neighed and threw a shockwave like a blast of shuddering thunder That could knock you down before her malice ploughs you under He'd left his abode so she didn't come alone And the sudden chill was cutting to the bone Her rider pulled the rein in his black gloved hands She turned and bared her teeth and I saw that they were fangs But before she could gallop back home in Hell's direction The rider gave a glare and shot me a question "You can see me!" he exclaimed, "What substance are you on?" "Cheese," I said, "so ** you and the horse you just rode in on."