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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

0 posted 2010-01-30 03:18 AM

White, fluttering curtains
become ghostly specters
advancing on your dreams.
Somewhere in the distance
you hear a chilling scream.
Around the room the shadows creep.
It seems those shadows never sleep.
They settle into dark blue corners
where they sit and stare at you.
You cover your head and whisper...
"It isn't real. It can't be true."

What's that in the closet?
Oh, God, what can it be?
No matter how curious you become,
you don't get up to see.

It's those monsters underneath the bed
that truly fill your heart with dread.

As you grow older you realize
that those monsters who gave you such a scare
were simple things like tigers and bears.
and you find yourself wishing
that you could have kept them there,
safely contained in your room.
for life will teach us, all too soon,
that monsters can become a complicated lot.
and who is to say what is true...
and what is not.

[This message has been edited by Marchmadness (01-30-2010 09:18 AM).]

Helen Gabelli
New Member

since 2010-01-29

Posts 3

1 posted 2010-01-30 07:30 AM

Interesting. I could not connect some of
the descriptions. I would really like to
know what you were trying to express through the description of your fears.
The last phrase seemed the hardest for me
to connect to the rest of the poem.

It was a realistic setting and I felt like
I was the one in the bedroom being scared.

Helen A. Woman

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2010-01-30 09:03 AM

Perhaps that truth is scarier than childish imagination.
Ida

wicked
Junior Member

since 2010-01-29

Posts 22
Florida, USA

3 posted 2010-01-30 02:59 PM

wow this one gave me goosebumps. I love the message here, that the truth is more to fear than your fears are. It's so true, that sometimes you are afraid of somthing simple, until you find somthing worse, and whatever you feared before becomes almost comforting, and you wish you could be afraid of somthing so simple again.

Amazing write.

I am that I am,
And that makes it me.
I float like a rock
But I sting like a bee.

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2010-01-30 05:33 PM

Yo dear Ida,

I love FDR's old statement:

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Love Bobby

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2010-01-31 08:14 AM

I agree that this is an amazing write, dear Ida. Bedroom fears are so classical, because it is there where we usually face our deepest fears, in lonely contemplation and indeed reality mixes with imagination.
I can very much relate to your words.

Love,
Margherita

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

6 posted 2010-01-31 04:58 PM

interesting 'write' indeed!

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