Shudders - MC Frontalot

I wasn’t the smartest boy in the household by a longshot

I knew of wandering the graveyard that it’s best met with an onslaught

Of something called shudders

It’s when your body trembles and your heart skips, sputters

And you mutter counter-evils, and you grip on to your charms

I’ve never comprehended the alarm

Caused by things described variously as scary

Terrifying, ghastly.

Could I follow this?

Barely

Certainly never felt it.

Never shuddered, and my pops

Sent me packing, called me bad luck kid, head full of rocks

I talked so loudly of my ignorance as I roamed

Complained I couldn’t get frightened, and might have bemoaned

That I’d been disowned.

A friendly hangman beckoned

But I partied with his danglers, didn’t shudder for a second

Then I heard about a castle in the distance that was haunted

Nobody lasted there an evening.

Could it be just what I wanted?

Didn’t know

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

I wasn’t the first one to show up claiming bravery

The rumored ends of my predecessors were unsavory

They’d become the catering at a feast of ghouls and spirits!

Neither the king nor his people would set foot near it

This seemed good;

fear, it glistened in their eyes as they spoke

I figured I could pick the habit up and go

(maybe all the way back home, having understood shuddering)

Did the townspeople deem me a simpleton?

Utterly

What a first night it was, too!

The hell-beasts

Were like from a nightmare.

I think?

I don’t get bad dreams

I tried to nap but the furniture floated and spun

We did some doughnuts in the stable yard!

Fun

The second night’s vigilance wasn’t any more fruitful:

Zombies down the chimney till the whole rec.

room’s full

All-bone nine-pin, glad I brought my lathe

Though I lost some money gambling, my denseness was unscathed

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Third and final evening, my reanimated corpse

Cuddle-buddy tried to strangle me.

Reliable sources

Report that I chucked him back in his coffin and sighed

Despaired of finding shudders locally and set to stride

Didn’t I want my reward?

The hand of the castle’s princess?

A path to power and riches, and this is its ingress?

And this is my dimness, I guess, but I choose to keep questing:

Find the next hypothesis of scariness and keep testing

But here’s that princess requesting that I reconsider

And as I spy her she reminds me of my babysitter

A village girl I had a crush on as a lad

Who never even noticed that I couldn’t make eye contact

This one’s staring me down

She’s used to getting her way, been wearing a crown

Is she scaring me now, with her «Think about it, please?»

I got this odd involuntary shaking in my knees

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of

Didn’t know

There was anything

In the world

To be frightened of