A kindergartner in his bed a man outside his room, his face against the foggy glass a stormy night… no moon. A lightning flash within the dark the boy sits up and cries, the hooded man with dripping nose looks straight into his eyes.
When morning comes his mother’s there her eyes are mean and wild “You ***’d your bed, again!” she said, “you stupid little child! You’re much too old for rubber pants but what else can I do? Now put them on and go to school I hope they laugh at you!”
Some fifty winters later and the figure still appears, where once a hooded human now a demon in my mirror. He’s not afraid of being seen, the man I am now knows his presence here is absolute, I live the life I chose.
He comes to see me every day when noontime hour is near, a surging angst from deep within my fifty years of fear. My closest friend since way back when my mother said I lied, I could have said I was afraid but never even tried.
She wouldn’t have believed me anyway….
I met my demon as a child at midnight in the rain, I swear I saw him smile at me from through the window pane, with water dripping from his nose and eyes like burning coal, a flash of light revealed his greed and then he took my soul
First post in a long while.. An early poem that still defines me, but I now view my demon more curiously than fearful.