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Footsteps echo, footsteps echo, footsteps echo, footsteps stop,
Turn and listen, holding, breathing, all alone, or maybe not?
Heartbeat punctuating silence, tongue licks dry, potential violence,
Darkness, quiet, windless, still, moonbright rolls across the hill.
Black and silver, black and silver, black and silver, strobic moon,
Path through forest slithers slowly down to lakeside, silver spoon,
Cunning contours, wreathed in vapours, silent sirens, 'Come this way!'
Whisp'ring, wilful, wanton Witchwood, seeking all from path to stray.
Water lapping, wet feet slapping, one hand clapping in between,
Pace grows faster, courts disaster, neck cranes back, seeks things unseen,
Heightened tension, fists are clenching, fingernails scrape sweat soaked hands,
Onwards lurching, cold limbs touching, deep hands clutch beneath the land.
Howl high, owl cry, dipping, diving, swooping, crawling over skin,
Footslip, root trip, downslip, bite lip, broken branch, a cry cut thin,
Falling, stumbling, loose earth crumbling, headlong tumbling over heels,
Spinning senseless, crashing breathless, trapped defenceless, terror feels.
Footsteps echo,
Footsteps echo,
Footsteps echo,
Footsteps,
Stop.
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