We knew that we shouldn’t have wandered around at night.

Paths lined by blood red flowers

We knew that being together was more dangerous than being alone.

Pairs drawn by unknown powers

We didn’t know where we were going.

Taken to a cave so deep

Didn’t realize what we were doing.

Where monsters lay souls to sleep

We should have.

Two go in, and one comes out

He was with me the whole time, until suddenly he wasn’t.

Never even hear a shout

Nobody heard anything, nobody saw anything. But we all knew.

With no memory of the night

I couldn’t remember what had happened after the flowers reached the cave.

Only feeling dread and fright

I was just left with a sickening dread, was left filled with so much fear.

Then behind the dusty shed

And then one day, just like the old nursery rhyme said,

One will show up dead

He was found in the same place as all the others, dead.