Trees Too Close Together

Between the town and the edge of the sea

Lurks a malevolent medieval forest

One must pass by to gain the beach

Children know to run by it, eyes cast down

Adults, they stare ahead, feet pacing fast

And animals – they will go nowhere close

Should you pass too near and happen to forget

And try peering through those over-crowded trees

Understand - it will be the very last thing you ever do

There are no spaces there but the shadows

Draw you, and the stink of evil breathes you in

And the trees close over and around

And it’s as if you had never even been …