Great writing.

You keep the rhyme and the story moving really well here, which is harder than it looks. The poem begins almost like a children’s woodland tale, then slowly turns wrong in a way that feels natural rather than forced. That shift gives the horror a nice bite.

What I liked most is the voice of the forest. Once the whispering starts, the atmosphere tightens fast, and the lines about voices wearing familiar voices work especially well. The final turn, that the forest travels through the mind, gives the piece something more unsettling than a simple monster-in-the-woods setup.

And the ending closes on the right note. It keeps the threat alive without overexplaining it. You leave the reader with the feeling that the danger didn’t stay in the poem, which is exactly what a piece like this wants.