poem!!?

Monsters

I was warned about the 

Monsters under my bed,

But they never did any harm

And they never got into my head

They did however get into yours,

They gave you sores

And im sorry.

But the monster under my bed?

They were more like family

Than you ever were.

I was never scared about my closet

Or what lied under me

But you kept telling me

To be cautious about 

The monsters under my bed.

One day I looked,

There was nothing there.

Maybe it was only you

Who had monsters under your bed.

Maybe they got into your head

As I grew older,

I started seeing these monsters

And they started getting into my head.

I started getting sores

Just like you did.

But as I grew older,

I realised they weren’t monsters at all.

But they were people.

The people who hated me.

The people who decided they were better.

Maybe that’s why you warned me

About the monsters under my bed.

Not because they were there,

But because they were people

Who walked around without a care.

I realise I was naive

I thought these monsters loved me,

But they just weren’t monsters yet.

But as we grew older,

They could no longer hide their truth

And so I dealt with the monsters under my bed.

I will warn my child 

About these monsters.

just like you did.

-E

21/6/23