# Night Creature

Author: Apolarbear17
Tags: Poetry, SSleep, Vague Creature

A poem I finished back in June 2020 about a man dealing with a creature keeping him up at night that only seems to affect him. This was actually something I submitted to be published at the time but it unfortunately got rejected, still I think it's still good enough to share

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"Night Creature"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno

There is a night creature that likes lurking outside my door&nbsp;

It prefers to come after midnight and can howl up a storm

It disappears after about seven o'clock each day&nbsp;

Where it comes from and where it goes I definitely cannot say

It's shape is always shifting and it never comes too near

It likes to lurk by a tree outside the house that it knows I can see from here

It has taken the shape of everything from creeping chimera to shadowy reindeer&nbsp;

It feels like it's mocking me with it's ambivalent staring eyes

Despite my attempts to show them no one else can see it like it's using some kind of disguise

But I know it's not, it just lurks and stares and keeps me up with it's cries

I've searched before to try to find where it goes, the home in which it lies

But I've had no luck and it continues to be my nightly surprise

It's interesting that its' howls only seem to affect my ears

Only I seem to hear it and that sends a bit of fear&nbsp;

Is it truly there or I am imagining this creature that by morning disappears&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

The thing is I've seen it and it's footprints and heard it's piercing howls&nbsp;

I know it's out there and there is proof that I've had people see

Although they don't believe me about the creature and nothing but grief give me&nbsp;

Recently I've started to make peace with its presence and it being cowled from everyone but me

Lately there have started to be nights where I am able to sleep even while it is there&nbsp;

It's howling just stops and I can finally sleep without a care&nbsp;

I'm starting to have sleep filled nights even though I know it glares from somewhere

I'm beginning to understand its' patterns and maybe someday I'll find it's lair&nbsp;

But for now I'm learning to sleep despite the threat of it being out there  
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Source: https://sofurry.com/s/A1pGEaqn