Beast Beneath Your Bed

More of a tone piece than serious verse.

You can hide from the beast beneath your bed 
You can kill the monster in the closet dead
You'll never flee fast enough or far
to escape the monster in your head.

The howling madness of the dark
or the burning shine of a sunlit park
crash the barrier behind you eyes
and feed the monstrous mind shark.

Teeth and jaws and mouth agape
the clawing howling mindless ape
that tears at dreams and waking
and turns all thoughts to bloody hate

You cannot flee the monster mind
you can't escape or hope to bind
a creature that lives alone within
and with your soul remains entwined.

Reviews

[Ed Hart]

I beg to differ with you...

[Emily B]

artful and frightening . . . very nicely captured