There's A Monster Under My Bed

I am lying in bed in the darkest hour
But such nightmares go on in my head
You see there's a problem
There's a monster under my bed
I can't scream or shout
Or I will fall, dead
I cannot succumb to my fear
There's a monster under my bed
With scales as black as ebony
And eyes so crimson red
I daren't run from this curse
There's a monster under my bed
I'm too old for this trouble surely
But it's waiting to be fed
I don't want to be the next snack
For the monster under my bed
Soon its morning and light
I'm careful where I tread
I cannot disturb
The monster under my bed
But soon I realise
After I hopped out and fled
That its all in my mind
The monster under my bed
It is my haunting memories
Like my scars of crimson thread
That I cannot escape
My monster under my bed

*Gabriella Anderson*