Monsters In My Closet

Monsters In My Closet  

I used to have monsters in my closet at night

Religion

Delusion

Obedience

Arrogance

Ignorance

So many learned demons

blending in with the timeless wallpaper and bowing shelves

like carelessly packed mementos of dry bloodless summers

Now they pry themselves off hanging hooks

and the swinging door speaks their cackle of devoured dreams

as they slip  out of their walk-in tomb

wearing the stench of forever

Tressa Lee Breen

December 16, 2013