Friday, April 30, 2021

Whispering Friend

As a child I found a worm in the woods that stung me and sickened me.

My friend came after I recovered.

He's been at my side since, helping me through ordeals, whispering advice,

though others cannot see him.

It was he who convinced me to leave home and seek the one he calls the Queen.

Following his insistent directions, 

I crept along stinking alleys, through twisting catacombs.

At the end of a tunnel curving into the earth,

we met a cackling ghoul who guards the Queen's lair.

The ghoul could see my friend, and to him he posed a riddle.

My friend solved it in a cryptic tongue.

When I woke a nurse told me it was all a fever dream,

but I know she is indeed the Queen, testing me.


a spooky boy