Monsters under the bed, eyes watching from the closet, shadows on the wall.12Please respect copyright.PENANADcgQXNY4el
You saw these things and knew that they were real. It didn’t matter how many adults tried to convince you they weren’t.12Please respect copyright.PENANAd556pTKLtM
You knew.12Please respect copyright.PENANApaEykepvCL
Then you grew up.12Please respect copyright.PENANAVwCaerJ3mq
The time came when you could sleep with one foot off the edge of the bed; you could go down the long hallway to the bathroom in the middle of the night without turning on the light.12Please respect copyright.PENANAhdqgByBfZ1
You forgot about the monsters.12Please respect copyright.PENANA1W19qZnctp
But I’ll let you in on a little secret.12Please respect copyright.PENANAvktyFymqDz
Adults are blind. They stumble through life and don’t give any thought to what‘s waiting for them at the end of the rainbow.12Please respect copyright.PENANAM3fhx2dpLE
Children can see. Children can hear.12Please respect copyright.PENANAwsw1uxRR3B
Adults see what they want to see. Reality as it best suits their current situation in life. Children see what’s really there.12Please respect copyright.PENANAtuinHA22Ze
The shadow on the edge of your vision, the creaking footsteps in the hall outside your bedroom. What you thought was a trick of the light, just the pipes creaking in an old house, it’s them.12Please respect copyright.PENANAUjNuKVTZff
They are our demons.12Please respect copyright.PENANASXlcbWTLhY
They haunt our childhoods and follow us into our adult lives. What used to be the smiling face at your bedroom window your parents swore was just a tree branch is now anger issues, or an insatiable lust.12Please respect copyright.PENANAUxHYz1dAr2
Maybe you have an addiction problem. Maybe you can’t stop lying. Maybe you like violence.12Please respect copyright.PENANAe8daYXNAA7
When you put on blinders to the realm of the shadows you turned your fears into parasites.12Please respect copyright.PENANA4wAWmkIgxk
They’ve been with you all along.12Please respect copyright.PENANAn20FtikJO3
They start with whispers in your ear, suggestions that are seductive and virtuously harmless.12Please respect copyright.PENANAydRC9R983h
Then comes the pushing, the pulling, the need to do their bidding, to cross a line.12Please respect copyright.PENANAblqetAmTIc
Then comes the spiral. The endless fall into a habit that started as a slow poison but turned into the spiritual equivalent of drinking bleach.12Please respect copyright.PENANAHIZQTx6AOO
Then comes the deepest sleep of all. Your demons cloud your mind with an ancient lullaby, and the child that once saw a monster under their bed is all but gone.12Please respect copyright.PENANAR05f94obro
They take over.12Please respect copyright.PENANApxq6dv0tWf
And mom and dad can’t tell you monsters aren’t real, that the shadows are just your imagination.12Please respect copyright.PENANA8WxgFWwTEh
Because you’re the monster now.12Please respect copyright.PENANABE9lcv55Ic
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