Shadows in the night

As the darkness of night spreads throughout the house,

Strange shadows shift and move about.

Through an open door there hangs a cold, damp mist,

all that it touches gets engulfed as it drifts.

What things lurk out there in the dark?

Just our own imagination where childhood scars have left a mark.

Colours that shone brightly are now hidden away,

still there but gone into the darkness of the end of the day.