In the autumn of one dark night, shadowed by extorted moon light

In my chambers I lay, quite peaceful and at bay

Watching leafs fall off trees from my window

T’was then that I saw, the night, not peaceful at all

Bore in my mind through the glass and steel I hid behind

From the crimson eyes of a creature most feral

From my heart I knew, there was nothing to do

Here I was prey, from mind to heart came dismay

Those eyes, sanguine, not blinking as the wind blows

And though I knew, I wouldn’t be easy to slew

Black became my mood, from this creature so shrewd

To be hunted, I knew, there was no greater peril

From my bed I rose, to challenge that foe

In my mind, I thought, I need only one shot

In my night cloths I ventured to retrieve my gun

Returning with my tool, practicing as I had in school

I glanced to my window to see, there lay my enemy

Laughing to myself as I wandered to the door for my prize

Out into the cold I walked, like a wolf I stalked

Slowly and quietly I traveled, thinking of how baffled

My prize would look polished and treated in the morning sun

Weapon loaded and turning the corner, my life grew shorter

Did my prey scatter? No… from the roof there came a clatter