A Child Afraid of What's Out There

[tzigane (sih-GUN, sih-GAHN):  A Gypsy, especially a Hungarian one]

The seers, they tell her, but from this she has run,
That she has the gift, might've been a Tzigane,
And she limits her knowing
To when folks'll be showing
Up out in her driveway or phoning again.

She was frightened as a child of spooks, you can bet,
After viewing the movie, The Song of Bernadette.
No visions would she see:
She blocked them, even Mary!
A sound life of normalcy she's lived so far yet.

From Big Foot she hid in the hot nights of summer
And sweltered from the heat that gathered under covers.
She cloaked her nightly trips
When she feared apocalypse.
Nothing could nab her while her prayers she did murmur.

Jean Dixon predicted the end of the world!
When learning what it meant, her fears began to swirl:
"I won't go!  I'm just six!
I'll hide!  This I'll fix!
They won't find me in my bed if I burrow!"

(Credit:  Grandiloquent Word of the Day for tzigane and its definition)