Nocturnal Madness

There are events occuring

Strange people emerging

When the darkness comes out

To hide them.

Inside the safe cocoons

Of sanitized civility,

Most of humanity

Are sequestered away in ignorancy.

Night after night

Out in the elements

Lurks the anomalies

Freak shows revealed accidentally.

A power line melting

At 3 am a few yards away from

Fireman wading fearfully

Into green glowing ocean waves.

A mad woman tells you the answer

To your question unspoken,

At the train station,

A man rewinds.

Hungry carnivores

Make desperate requests

Then vanish

With the morning light.

Spend some time

In the wilderness

Of the city at night,

Under the lonely

Moonlight.

There is an underground

All around you,

Shadows swallowed

Into disappearing staircases.

You would never even believe it,

If you saw it with

Your own

Eyes.