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.