If they knew it, they would shiver.
Their feelings will soon change,
To make Chris get rid of Jane.
They’re not alone, by the way,
There’s one more actor in this play,
Grumbling somewhere on the floor,
It was Marty, the pug dog.
Marty isn’t too excited,
Furthermore, he’s looking frightened.
As the mirror got unpacked,
The pug was barking in attack.
“Come on, Marty, don’t be jealous!”
Chris taps him lightly on the withers.
“You’re still our favorite, remember?
Be a good boy, cool your temper.”
8
In the middle of that night,
The moonlight made the hallway bright,
As Marty timidly appeared,
To examine the weird mirror.
It looked so ordinarily normal,
That Marty thought his feelings wronged him.
But then the surface’s gotten smeared
And the reflection disappeared.
Instead the mirror started showing,
The scenes of horror that were going
To happen soon in their house.
The pug was trembling like a mouse.
At one point Marty’s had enough,
He couldn’t even dare to bark.
At the monster in the mirror.
He ran away and softly whined in fear.
9
Early next morning there was a quarrel,
Something not particularly normal,
In the family of the Bowns.
Marty witnessed it – and frowned.
The quarrel kicked off out of nothing.
Silly reasons to start fighting
Chris said something, Jane fought back,
Payback followed by payback.
It happened in front of the mirror, of course,
When Chris was hectically preparing for work.
Tying his tie, straightening sleeves.
“More will be coming,” Marty perceived.
10
The following weeks things got much worse,
Family atmosphere becoming adverse.
The Bowns have now started sleeping apart,
And barely talking, with ice-cold hearts.
Poor Marty, disturbed and confused,
Had no idea what he could do.
Meanwhile he tried not to go to the hallway,
Scared of what he could see in his pathway.
Marty loved his masters deeply,
He wasn’t going to concede so easily.
One day a thought creeped into his mind,
He hoped it’d help leave it all behind.
11
As the darkness slowly covered,
Like a blanket of black colour,
Every corner of the building.
In the hall there stood the villain.
Things were going just as planned,
The mirror had the upper hand.
