She found the rag doll
in a second hand store.
she bought it and took it home
because it harkened back to
the happiness of her childhood.
She kept it in a chair by her bed
and her bedroom got an eerie vibe.
At first she couldn’t feel it.
Then the nightmares began.
Hell and demons, tortures and hell fires
Night hags and incubi
plagued her once sweet dreams.
A week later, she died in her bed
from a spontaneous combustion,
her body burned to smoking ashes.
The rag doll was found sitting in
the chair with a sinister smile
on its amused cloth face.
Bob Boyd