When I Lost The Trail
written by: G. Rod Hamilton
@redwrangler
I fell for a sound
While hiking through woods
Curious to its nature
Like nothing I’ve heard
I had to give chase
My discernment failed
Something shadowed my steps
When I lost the trail
Off in the remote bush
Through a carpet of ferns
Between limbs are spun webs
I run into face first
Warnings of trespass
Cut deep into the bark
Briers drag on my skin
In clawing red marks
Nailed to a sycamore
A decayed arrow sign
Perhaps it leads back
Or far deeper inside
This odd sensory realm
Of caws and wails
Of clattering echoes
What approaches in stealth
As the twilight falls fast
Into Immediate dark
I wish for the weapons
I had left in my car
Night raised anxiety
All directions the same
Eyes appear all around
Slowly my resolve drains
In the glitter overhead
Stars I trusted to guide
All scattered through treetops
With no pattern to find
That sound is upon me
Blind in my every step
I trip over the body
Of a moon lit silhouette
Tumbling down an incline
Chilled to the senses
I’m swamped in this mire
Of being disoriented
You won’t see the daylight
A faint heard whisper said
That was too foreign
To be only in my head
As numbness sets in
Seeing it at my last
Indescribable unbearable
The stalking shadow lash
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