Scaring Staring Eyes

Scaring Staring Eyes

Yesterday up in the skies

I met a pair of scaring eyes,

staring back at me

what could they really be?

Fear instilled with chills 

shook my bones 

with unknowns,

then I blink, so I can think

and make a wish to dismiss 

hoping to scare away those staring eyes!

Then like a Lance 

I throw a glance

and zoom around the room,

ready to freak out 

jump about

scream and shout 

as I find out

the scary staring eyes 

are no longer glaring spies!

So in a hurry full of worry,

I say my prayers 

and run off down the stairs,

wondering if the pair of scaring eyes 

were ever there?

By Toni Cairns

6th April 2019

@babbspoetry

Written with one of favourite poems in mind Antigonish written in 1899 by William Hughes Mearns, the poem is also known as 'The Little Man Who Wasn't There'. 

Antigonish 

Yesterday, upon the stair,

I met a man who wasn't there!

He wasn't there again today,

Oh how I wish he'd go away!

When I came home last night at three

The man was waiting there for me

But when I looked around the hall,

I couldn't see him there at all!

Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!

Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door...

Last night I saw upon the stair,

A little man who wasn't there,

He wasn't there again today

Oh, how I wish he'd go away....

By 

William Hughes Mearns