Scarecrow - Benighted

Imperceptible threat

His hideous facial features

Faceless terror

Projective inversion

Cracked skin, nocturnal sweat

Stench of pee and excrements

Pale light dancing, lamp swinging

Unstable balance that can break at any time

Hidden under the blanket, feeling his glance on me

His skepticism stinks of ignorance

Internal reflection of the monster

Through a window that never existed

Compelling me

My hateful friend, may you never leave, never leave

Artificial treacherous light, scarring the dark

Fear the scarecrow

His regular and putrid breath invades the room

Absent flowers fade away

My beautiful straw doll

Cold smile, wormed body without ends

No sound as starts the decomposition

My hateful friend, may you never leave, never leave

Artificial treacherous light, scarring the dark

Fear the scarecrow

Waiting for the cleaver of the promised and lethal dissociation

That will split the child’s will into two

Leaving him abandoned

To the precipice that his mind refused to see

Leaving me as a placid witness