Monsters in our midst

MONSTERS IN OUR MIDST

When we are young if we are lucky our parents are the team

Who keep us warm and healthy and help fulfill our dreams.

They are around us every day to help alleviate our dread

They are the ones who check for monsters hiding neath our beds.

Then as we grow it becomes unclear just who is to be trusted

As we realize our views on this must now be readjusted

For we find in our once innocent world there does indeed exist

People who want to harm us…call them monsters in our midst.

What makes these monsters dangerous is they can be anyone you see

There is no way to tell the difference between them, or you or me.

They can even be your neighbor, or God forbid, a friend.

And we can never fathom the horrors they intend.

Take Ariel Castro, I’m sure no one dreamed he could

Hold 3 women captive right inside his neighborhood.

Preying on their innocence and pretending them his wives

While robbing them of their purity and 10 years of their lives.

But the world will always have its monsters, causing havoc, causing strife

My only hope is that they’re caught before they damage one more life.

And once their caught to another monster I will gladly say farewell

For I hope all monsters, like Ariel Castro, will forever rot in hell…

I wish there were no monsters to cause so much unrest

I wish there was an app to tell one monster from the rest

I wish the monsters in this world could easily be dismissed

And more than ever I wish there were no monsters in our midst.

I wish it were still easy – that we were all part of that team

That helps keep one another safe and fulfill each other’s dreams.

I wish we lived in a world where no one would cause us dread

And all our monsters would stay safely hidden neath our beds.