I'm still not asleep it's now twelve in the night.
I kept staring at the prodigious scene of the bright moonlight.

The night is quietude and dark, the trees are still,
But the next moment what I saw made my spine chill.

Something is flying in the bright night sky,
My eyes goggled! and I was sure that it is not a girl or a guy.

The thing is so lithesome that it is swirling around the moon,
And all of a sudden it came and landed in my room.

I am so scared that I couldn't even breathe,
But of course I said, "please take a seat."

The room was dark so I switched on the light,
And my eyes rested on a hideous sight.

She is wearing a cap which is pointy at the end,
But I couldn't make out that would she be my foe or my friend.

Her eyes are flaming with anger, and looked so violent,
She had a hooked nose and bucked tooth, but she was standing rather silent.

Her eyes are red and looked like a serpentine,
She was staring, her eyes pointing at me like a feline.

She is having a bushy eyebrows and bloody lips,
Her hands were dirty with sharp pointy fingertips.

She is having a long, bushy, askew broom,
Which she kept it beside a wall in my room.

She spoke, "I went to the graveyard at night for a jaunt,
And now I am here to give you a haunt.

I eat ten children a year,
And squish them and frizzle them and make them disappear.

But now I am too old to eat all these,
So, I decided to eat only insects, brew and cheese."

I mustered all my courage and thought not to be so bleak,
So sometimes I decided to speak.

She took out a tome, probably a magical book,
Skipped some pages and gave a cursory look.

And slowly the ambiance started to change,
My room became dark and looked quite strange.

She scanned some pages in the book, and started reciting a spell,
A graveyard popped out in the darkness,
And then she said, "this is where I dwell".

The place is dark, and there are graves all around,
The night is dark and everything is resting safe and sound.

She said, "I am a hag, and I live in the graveyard, of the Eastern Territory,
You can visit me anytime at night cause it's free."

I think she became my crony,
As we were sharing our thoughts sitting at the balcony.

It is such an amazing moment that I will never forget,
And she kept reciting spells, with something or other will beget.

Despite her appearance, she is really amenable,
And I enjoyed her company and tried to be amicable.

Then all of a sudden, a bright ray of light came and rested on my eyes,
And then I realised that it is morning and my dream demised.

I looked around the room and found the awry broom beside me,
And then I asked myself that was the hag real or did she flee.
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