"The eerie night life"

The midnight darkness ever so hard to see through

the silence of the house so deadly

hearing every creek and the whisper of what little air blows through the cracks

looking through a pain glass window into the eerie darkness

and watching limbs sway in the unrelenting breeze

seeing what the night is filled with, hunters and prey

rodents scurry and scowl while birds and cats on the prowl

heaving all sorts of noises

A creaky board whines do to its expansion in the nights summer heat

a poorly valved faucet drip's

the AC's fan humming slightly in the distance

and the lights of passing motorist timed in perfect intervals

the cry of an owl about to get his last kill

as dawn approaches and the night life ready to rest they're eyes

and the sunlight spills onto the earth waking the sleeping and coaxing the wake to rest till night

(dedicated to the night dwellers)