Boogey Man

When I was a young boy, I had a fright
That Monsters would come out at night
And that they’d eat me, I was sure!
But my parents helped me to endure

They showed me while the lights were on
That the Monsters were all gone
In fact they had never really been
So off to bed I should go again

But sleep did not come easily
And I would lay awake nightly
Wide eyed, hiding under the covers
Until exhaustion won eventually

In the morning I would awake to find
That it had all been in my mind
And that there was nothing to really fear
So I grew up believing it clear

Then I went to school one day
And bought all the lies the teachers gave
In fact the older I got in life
The less I saw with my own eyes

I got a job that would make me a man
Where I ended up deployed to foreign lands
And in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan
I saw the terrible nature of man against man

Those visions hit me across the face like a smack
In fact I’d say they brought me back
All the way to the days of my youth
Where suddenly I realized the truth

That Monsters are very real you see
They walk and talk
Just like you and me.