Flickering lights

I ran towards the window

To keep the latch

As it should be.

I could feel the chill

And hear the wind

Blowing hard crushing through the trees.

The sound of the creaking branches

Sent a chill down my s

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I could hear them hitting hard on the roof

Like a fast galloping horse in a race.

As silence descends

I crept through the window

to catch a glimpse of the nights.

My eyes kept flickering

as I saw the flickering lights

in the moonless night.

                                          26,October 2010.