Hold Me Poem by Tony Adah

Hold me when the night comes
Oh hold me
When the owls hoot
And crickets chirp and cicadas screech
Lullabies for their young ones
To obey the night.

When it is night
And bioluminiscence flickers
In insects like stars
Tell me not to come to the open restrooms
For those are the eyes of my ancestors
Searching to ask me
How my journey here was

When it is dark
I crave the kindness of my grandma
Not to tell us those harrowing lores
That will make sleep
A haunting deed to perform

Oh when it is dark
Before the cruel darkness begins to haunt me
Tell the dogs to bark seven times
Before the night cracks dawn
When the night comes
Hold me
And stop me
From the fear of those lazy
Doddery shadows casted in grandma's lore.