What a Fright!

shimmering

ghostly

spectral sight

awakened me from slumber

one dim, gloomy night

scared down to my marrow

I did not dare alight

to investigate this vision

by turning on the light

I hunkered ‘neath the covers

hearing footfalls

faint and slight

a pouncing jolt upon my bed

I shrieked; screamed with all my might

for ‘twas kitty cat who was the ghoul

on the sill beneath the drapes

as he moved the moon shone in

flickering shadow

moving shapes

feline nocturnal meandering

had caused my anxious plight

nowadays Tabby sleeps
outside my boudior
goodness … what a fright!