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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