After considering this for a while, I finally decided to put up another version of A Monster Came Knocking. I tried to remove it slightly, make it less obvious for the fic, but wasn't able to succeed. The final version will be in the fic and not posted separately.

This was pretty experimental so I don't expect it to be quite as good as the first one; after all, the second of anything doesn't tend to be.


A little house with people four

A stranger knocked on their front door

They greeted him with open arms

Didn't wonder if they'd come to harm

-o-

Mother, father, daughter, son

The whole family, four plus one

The stranger wormed his way inside

All was left was to divide

-o-

Seemed so good, yet bad intent

The stranger then was quite content

The father, found, a pool of blood

For to security he'd been lulled

-o-

The family was stricken with grief

The father's life had been too brief

The stranger, with his silver tongue

Condolences were easily sung

-o-

The calm brought then was not to last

A fragile jasmine flower cast

And broken, ripped, beyond repair

No trace that it had once been fair

-o-

In time the mother was worn down

To his advances she couldn't frown

All joy gone, no hope left

With a new man in bed she slept

-o-

The son had worried from the start

So in this story he took part

He knew the man and what he'd done

And that the man had almost won

-o-

He couldn't expose, and so one night

He set out to do what was right

Knife in hand, fear in the other

Strong hate for his mother's "lover"

-o-

Stealing in with feet of mouse

Not a sound heard through the house

Knife in hand and hand held high he-

Too late, red splash, no eyes to see

-o-

In time the mother found it out

And in her mind there was not doubt

That vile man had to be killed

A job not for those weak of will

-o-

In her rage she had no doubt

Her only thought was to attack

Not only did she lose the fight,

But revenge dropped out of sight

-o-

Losing all, he left them then

Soaked in blood 'gain and again

The family that he had once wanted

In the ground, forever haunted

-o-

Forevermore, to rot away

In misery is where he'll stay

And this is how he spends his life

Dreaming of his long-lost wife