lifelong sentence

I can’t walk alone at night

It leads to shakes and shivers 

I cling tight to my phone 

I want to go home 

To escape the looming figures 

I can’t walk alone at night

There are ghouls they won't condemn

Still these creepers do creep 

And the reapers do reap 

As I’m unraveled by the hem 

I can’t walk alone at night

My cupboard, bare and bitter 

I could wait until morn 

But I have been forewarned 

I cannot grow any thinner 

I can’t walk alone at night

I worry they may follow 

I look over my back 

And prepare for attack 

Sharp breaths from ribs so hollow 

I can’t walk alone at night 

The chills run down my spine 

The streets grow so eerie 

And I grow more leery 

Mom, please stay on the line 

I can’t walk alone at night 

They sneak up like boogiemen 

The bed springs do squeak 

With the protesting shrieks 

Still it's all her fault again 

We can’t walk alone at night

We’re blind with no defenses 

Always carry your mace 

And quicken your pace 

Womanhood, a lifelong sentence