Dangers in the night

In the Darkness
All through the night
Prowlers crept
Strangers checking locks door and windows

Parents sleeping
Children in their bed

Houses ignored with dogs barking

House by house
Door by doot
Window by window

Shame if found walking
After midnight

Predators were watching
Waiting

Hours
Days
Werks
Sometimes months

A drunken wife
A jilted teenager

Car trouble in the middle of the night

Careful careful
Mothers would tell their daughters

There out there
Waiting to pounce, prey and devour

No one if safe
No one immune

Not from the dangers in the night.