POEM STARTER
Write a poem that has an uncanny mood.
Uncanny is defined as strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way.
Shadows
When you see a shadow
If couse it’s in the sun
But what if it’s not
What if it’s midnight
What if there are no street lights
No light of the moon
Nor there be porch lights
Not a light to be seen
But in the dark
There’s a shadow that is following you
You can’t see your own
For it’s dark
But the shadow follows you
Through the empty void
You don’t know where to go
Nor do you know where you are
But the shadow was far behind
But it slowly gets closer
You quicken your pace
The shadow follows after
A scream enters your lungs
It echos off the…Walls?
You don’t remember being
Left in a room
You keep running
Like a zombie but not slow
Your hands out in front of you
So you don’t bump into anything
Your heart begins to race
The shadow is still on pursuit
You trip over something
You seem to fall over
But then your now in the body
Of a shadow
You watch the human get up
You want to leave
But when the human starts to run
You are pulled with an
Unseen force
The human looks back
Finally sees they are not the shadow
The stand there, shocked
Their voice is shallow
“I don’t know where you came from”
My voice was just a breath
And I walked away, all my choice
I didn’t believe it until
The light flooded in
The human stared back at me
As I left him alone
He looked to see his shadow was gone
What was the point of the shadow?
Was it a spirit of a ghost
Trapped in his body
That was finally set free
But must follow
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