…be Vigilant. If you see shadows,
they might be wolves.
So cry “Wolf!”
Or better yet,
just to be prepared,
consider:
what if it’s a pack!
there are six,
maybe twelve,
sixteen, who knows?
cry “Wolves!”
“Wolves!”
“WOLVES!”
or better, perhaps,
cry “Lions!”;
scream, “Tigers!“;
bellow “behold:
hence comes Fenrir,
destroyer,
hand-biter,
conqueror worm,
harbinger, bringer, and maker
of cessation,
hither, too, comes the Wolf-Man,
modern, tragic, capable of
infecting others
with his own curse,
or perhaps Anubis,
passing judgment,
Enforcer of Curses,
vitalizer of terrible oaths;
and approaching,
with terrible silence,
teeth,
teeth,
just teeth,
and
angry,
ravening
hunger,
here
come
the
WOLVES.
here come they all,
you’re sure,
you’re sure,
you’ve been told,
by reliable sources,
by those who surely wouldn’t lie,
by those who know what it is
to feel the Bite.
It’s a thousand wolves,
a hundred,
one wolf,
one very desperate,
very fatal
Eater.
You’re sure.
You’re sure.
You’re almost sure.
and if it’s but a shadow,
isn’t it better to be safe
than disemboweled?
Isn’t it better to disperse a shadow
than to let light take its natural course?
only:
safety is more than instinct,
more than hindbrain.
the panic
which overcomes
flesh,
moves your heart so rapidly
that there’s no energy left
to move your legs,
My name is Jeff Mach (“Dark Lord” is optional) and I build communities and create things. Every year, I put on The Catskills Halloween Festival, the largest Halloween festival of its kind in America.. I also write a lot of fantasy and science fiction.. You can get most of my books right here. Go ahead, pre-order “I HATE Your Prophecy“. It may make you into a bad person, but I can live with that.
