I found myself in a deep dark wood

Whose trees towered like skyscrapers tall

Inundating the sky with branches bare

So that there was little light

To navigate my way across

And, like a sailor stranded

At sea I was lost.

I took a pause

To sleep a little

So as to divert my mind in pleasant dreams,

But I couldn't sleep,

For every time I tried to slumber

The wood rattled 

And resonated with piercing shrieks.