Superstitious Nature

Prompt:Trapped by Evil
Coloring the world contest – July 18

Superstitious Nature

Whippoorwills echo throughout the dark night.
A soul soon will depart and take its last flight.
This certain death omen is mournful at best,
and resounds through the night allowing no rest.
I lie in my bedroom and listen and wait
for other sure signs of someone’s fate.
My left eye’s been twitching all the day long;
the grim reaper’s visit won’t be prolonged.
The old mantel clock hasn’t worked for a year,
but last night it chimed, now I’m filled with fear!
There’s a moth at my window trying to get in.
I’m trapped by evil that soon shall begin.
Last week the hall mirror fell from the wall;
no one was near it to cause it to fall.
Someone in this house will soon depart
It will be me. I know this in my heart.
I’ve salted the doorsteps, and hung out the bells,
made a necklace with a spider in a walnut shell.
I guess I should surely be making my peace,
because I’ll likely be dead before this night shall cease.

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