Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Shared Thread of Dread

Edgar Allan Poe was the god

Of fiction for H.P. Lovecraft,

Both considered outcasts and odd,

Hung up on horror and deemed daft.

Both authors lived and wrote about

The ghastly nightmares each endured.

Their tales were some escape no doubt

By penning grim thought into word.

Both authors fictionalized their

Feelings of such fragility

That both encountered ev'rywhere

In their worlds of reality.

The same nightmares in both did dwell

As a fact of a living hell.