monsters_under_my_bed DammitJanet i want you to protect me from the monsters under my bed. to wrap you around me like a quilt, where i can't be seen. where my breath gets hot and hard to swallow. the shadows will always move, but not with you there. i will not see them. completely comfortable. completely safe. eyes closed. for once. i *need* you to protect me from the monsters under my bed. as if still a child, i turn off the light and jump to my bed, so my legs can't be grabbed. my curtains need to be shut, so there won't be something in the window. the closet needs to be latched, so the door won't creak in the night. i don't feel safe. and my pillows can no longer fool me. 030117 ... Fido Me I have a special bond With those beneath my oaken bed, We run amok among the dead And bowl upon their sacred lawn. At night they come at half past one, Knocking about my posts below I aught to bash them every one, "Be quiet!" They aught to know! But so such anger ever stikes me, For it's far more fun to have a cheer With my chums who live so near, And especially ones so happily inbibing. She'll never heard me sing aloud, Under sweeping midnight clouds, About the nights I missed her most, When my friends were friendly ghosts. 041004 ... mademoiselle & the ghost who sleeps beside me your_shadow 050524 ... somenom my bed is just a mattress on the floor no room for monsters under it unless they're teeny tiny 050524 ... somenom the monster_in_my_bed is a different story 050524 ... Lemon_Soda I sleep on a pile of blankets and pillows on the floor. No "bed" for them to hide under. 050525 what's it to you? who go blather from