City Phantoms

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City Phantoms

Under the windows quiet dream

Just as cats crawls silently

O’er the roofs, too, evening walks

Treading clouds with catlike paws

Silence creeping round the square

Tracks down some surviving words

Misty streets will gladly share

Cobbled spread with a whole world

So, man, beware – when darkness comes

Watch out and mind – your steps reach chasms

A silent howl spreads thru the night

The silent phantoms glide dressed up as cats

The freezing glow comes out at sight

Of thousand eyes, ill-omened chat

Once paralyzing then observes

You move, they sing their serenades

Each of them – is pure lust

Hold breath and stab with eyes

Pierce the hollows where night hides

Hear the moth inside the lamp

But to deaden their foot’s sound

Failed to find out where they lurk

They’ll just spring out from the murk

And a sole look from their eyes

Makes your nerves go petrified

So, man, beware – when darkness comes

Watch out and mind – your steps reach chasms

And lock down all your doors

For the night is deep

Wait up till the milkmen come

You’d better not even leap