Please Don't Look

I sneak and scuttle from my door

I look around and see no more

The monsters don’t like to come out during the night

Under darkness I can avoid their searing light

Eyes glow bright and burn holes in my clothes and in my skin

Check again!

There might be one or two, peeping from out the cracks of their towers

Sneaking along I hear growls, what some call laughter, far away

But not far enough

Scanning scanning scanning THERE!

3 creatures, standing by their warships

I am within their range, thank god they don’t see me

I manage to enter the hangar undetected

They usually don’t park their warships here at night

I ascend the stairs to the top

I do a double take, there’s a skunk in the corner

Oh it’s the Skunk

“here again?”

I turn away without saying a word, now’s not a time to rehash

I am afraid

Riding down ba-bum ba-bum

Petrifying silhouette runs past the fence

My heart ba-bum ba-bum

This intermediary space, the walls with huge eyes

Darting around then gazing at me, ba-bum ba-bum

Rushing downward ba-bum ba-bum

Decide to take a different route than the usual

I spot one of the creatures, it’s far, but it notices me as well ba-

This is what I get for deviating

The thing is horrible looking, even at this distance

It dons a disgusting, porta-potty-water-blue hoodie and sweatpants black as a dead crow

Its attack is piercing into me and coursing through me like an invasive jellyfish

You wonder how I got out alive?

Well these creatures don’t claw you, bite you, or gore you

All they have to do is look

The only reason they don’t kill me, is because I look like one

One of those disgusting creatures

I’m a person too