the dark house

some houses have a dark
cloud,
a stain
about them.
it's hard to pin point exactly
what it is.
but even the road that leads
to them
feels wrong, and dreadful.

there is a feeling that you
shouldn't go there.

the house is cursed.
I have been in houses
like that
and felt the aura of something
bad
lurking about.

the infection of evil
in there. despair.
you feel it when you enter.
it's in the eyes
of those of
live there too.

in their
bones. they can't shake it.
the underlying sadness and fear.