Are You Afraid Of The Dark ?

Another experiment with Suno; A poem set to music or rather a poem with added music, or is that the same thing - anyway the poem came first. Are You Afraid of the dark? Once upon a midnight sombre, Through which came tapping, tapping, tapping. In there stepped a haunting downbeat, Still is rapping, still is rapping. I felt compelled to scour the setting I awoke with such a start. Ah, distinctly I was strumming, "Take thy woe from out my heart". At that my soul knew fear. The thunderclouds spoke of death. Whilst in the earth I saw a grave, My body failed to draw a breath. I heard a maniacal, muted moaning; A solemn, sepulchral shrieking. I believed my time was over As I heard my spirit weeping I had never been so frightened, Never dreaming of these shadows; And the creatures I imagined From long forgotten barrows. But just before I drew my last breath A light appeared in the eastern sky. The coming dawn rode to my rescue The demons dissolved before my eye. Years later grown into adulthood, Still remembering that fright; When asked why I am afraid of the dark, I confess the happenings that night.