Monster

I used an AABB rhyme scheme for this one, also didn't keep track of iamb, though it's meant to be more of a free poem

There's a monster in my closet

Though my father said "get over it"

You can't even check for me?

It's a waste of time and energy

Couldn't bother when he drank all night

Just to come home to fight

A mother who only wanted to protect her son

What does that make you? Less than a person

One night she had enough

Thought you called her bluff

Until she reached for the door

You screamed "shut up, w***e!"

That's when your one hand

Changed the man I am

She took one too many blows to the head

I saw when she bled and your dread

When you sat on my bed

I knew she was dead

"Mom's left" you said

You expect me

to believe

a woman like she

would just up and leave?

So I became her surrogate

I become the one to hit

I became the one to plan

I became the vengeful man

There's a monster in your closet, dad

He's black-clad

Finally free

It's me