The House That Stood Alone and Cried

Inspired by The Dark House by Anonymous located in A Children’s Book of Verse, Illustrated by Eric Kincaid, Poems selected by Marjorie Rogers. (Brimax Books)

On a moor of dark cloud of eerie weird screeching call a house stood alone and cried

For Sorrow’s tears of full wide as eons of years ago it graced the land in ill-begotten ways

Centuries of centuries children laid in beds of torment torture until their pain saturated each pore of a house that became alive with sorrow reborn

Each room was dark dank chilled to bone the morrow of a person’s soul that invited none enter happy but remain sad

Creepy noises of walls that spoke mean words to all that lived within and made the mind dement and reel in unreality

Cupboards cupboards of storage lined halls of black that defied the cheer of light and normalcy creeped seeped through the night

A box of dark lived in a room of its own circulating evil of fluctuating beats of heart that reverted thumps throughout the night

Children chilled scared laid through the night in beds with scarce of blanket and lack of prayer to keep safe through nights of terror

Welcome unwelcome the house seemed to beckon all to devour every eerie emotion that could contain the halls and walls of awful veins of life blood

Seemingly of its own accord the house revolved revolved around every soul and emitted cries of cries of the inner torment that dwelled between and below

Still standing it continued its own play of a house that refused to die but gained gained misery as each passing day dwelt

By

Felicia McCaw