Sitting in my den 

One stormy night

As the wind howled

I was watching 

An old rerun

Of the Twilight Zone

By Rod Sterling

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Suddenly my house 

Went dark

And outside was pitch black

With lightning flashing

And thunder roaring 

In my mind arose an ogre

An apparition if you like

That began to haunt me

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I stumbled around

In the dark

Trying to make sense

Of it all

But the darkness

And fear of it all

Sent shivers down

My spine

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It seemed as though

A ghost was following

Me around

It was a disembodied spirit

Moving behind me

And I kept bumping

Into things

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I hit a cabinet filled

With glasses

And the whole thing

Came crashing down

I gasped

Throwing myself

On the floor

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I was covered with blood

When the unexpected happened

My lights began to flicker

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They came on

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The pitch darkness

Was no more

The storm had passed

The ghost vanished

And I was left with one hell

Of a mess to clean up

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