Perverse Imp

Estranged to a lonely room

Littered with trash and splattered gloom

Fettered and sentenced to early doom

Distressed and distraught to a sordid mood

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

To make sure the windows latched

To make sure the door to match

Hope to God to soon to catch

Before settling to an unworldly nap

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

Late night battered darkness broken

Metallic taste in my mouth beholden

Bathroom rush with my mouth open

Rinse the mouth and nose thus salted

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

I never see the imp come or go

Only disturbance in light or dark shadow

Low to the floor  slither  and flow

Dash under the bed, I don’t really know

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

Maybe it is up on the ledge

Or under the bed or behind the case

Or cowering in a corner or place

Peeking out  from a closet embrace

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

In my dreams I see a sordid face

Withered and shriveled and contorted with hate

Laronian imp with purpose of fate

In my mouth it squirts the paste

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

Again I wake and bolt for the sink

From the corner of my eye I see the imp

He disappears in wink or a blink

Invisible to the man with a limp

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

Pint sized demon un happily  born

Raised to hurt and kill with poison

Never seen in a man with reason

Punished in a life of torture and scorn

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

In the darkness I see a leap

Up to the ledge an amazing  feat

For a tiny thing at most two feet

Hiding until I fall asleep

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

Needles inserted into my feet

Slow painful  sore legs they do  retreat

Hope to lord my soul to keep

Late at night in darkness deep

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

In the blackness I hear a click

Grab a sword and after it

Under the bed in a squealing fit

Damaged with a warbling tweet

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

Should I slowly pass away

Hopefully my children remember me

Horrible taste with it at bay

Awakening to a brand new day

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

Should I survive to tell a story

Of terror, pain and faith and glory

Unbelievable unreasonable stodgy and gory

Peers in as I swoon with sedated foray

Creeps and crawls and stalks at night