By: WH Angel

When I was growing up
I believed monsters lived in the closet,
and some under my bed.
They were gigantic and intimidating
like Freddy Kreuger.
I thought they would eat me,
but they never did. 

When I was growing up,
the shadows were ghosts and ghouls.
They only came out at night.
They crept up on me like shadows on the wall,
and doing a demons dance on my dreams. 

When I was growing up,
I believed in monsters.
Some were gigantic, some were puny,
yet all from the recesses of a child's mind.
When I was growing up...