Night Terror

I saw a deep craggy cave
In a tall rocky wall
In a forgotten canyon
A thousand feet tall.

All manner of evil

Every fevered child’s dream
Clung to the rocks
Like the bile in a scream.

The cavern yawned wide

Like the entrance to hell
Like the entry to perdition
In a molten red well.

Or, was it but a vision

Of all I once craved
All packed in a dank hole
In a bottomless cave?

No matter, dear friend.

I know it was real.
And I will not return
To a grave I did seal.