Seeing You Around

We'll see you around: down a starless alley,
What a stupid girl? Come the midnight sally,
Lurking in the shadows, waiting in the dark,
You look rather fearful: is this a final walk?

Listen to the tension: fresh meat to be cleaved,
Exposed to intention, could it be believed,
You would take this turning, right into his lair,
Where you find out swiftly a hand's in your hair?

Each step drives your heart, beating in your mind:
You're this evening's victim, the ending is timed
To realise the nightmares, every hidden creature
Unfrozen on waking: iced on every feature;

You're fearful for a reason: a reason now known,
Despite clicking footsteps: you're utterly alone;
Although there is something, does it really mean,
You could ever see it or we'd hear your scream?

Spinning in the darkness, lamps out in the street,
A cry stilled in your larynx by a curse so sweet;
He doesn't want to hurt, it's built in each gene,
His hissings disconcert: his attitude's extreme;

Your demise is sudden, a hand on your shoulder,
A blade cuts a throat, midnight's cutting colder;
Smile at death's greeting as the eyelid flickers,
Your pupils dilating, wetness in your knickers;

Limbs tense and folding; that heartbeat is fading;
A whisper's a scolding as the blade is pressed in;
Can't discern an outline? think now of the ground:
A rest for a silhouette: we'll see you around.