Literature
I Am the Unseen Movement in the Night
I am the unseen movement in the night;
Disturbing, displacing and rustling all
In my path. Unbidden, I might enter,
Hidden, through a window left ajar, or
Through the door that clatters in a damp draught.
I may catch you through a chink or crack, crease
Of fabric on the bed sheet as I move
Through unsealed ways of mice and crawling things.
I cannot be seen. Even in daylight,
I am there, but seem not to be present.
To be, or not to be, the Bard did write;
Such is it for the watcher in the night.
Perhaps I have not spoken true; my form,
Unseen being being noted by you,
Is announced by the displacement of things
Corporeal. I am sometimes subtl