Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Keeping the lights on at night May 29, 2012

 


She turns on lights

At night to keep

The spirits contained

Under the bed,

God-like light

That keeps her safe

When she’s stopped

Being able to

Protect herself,

She needs others

She brings

within her circle

keeping them close

for when the bed shakes

or the closed door opens,

the man with the badge

to whom she has

given on those

sacred documents,

proving once and for all

the existence of

Bigfoot she insists

Is stalking her,

Such a fearful life

She leads,

Wasting electric

To keep light on,

When she already

Knows there is

Nothing under

The bed

But dust.


email to Al Sullivan

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