Watch the shadows.
Be afraid.
Hide in silent wonder.
Be transfixed.
Check under your bed, and behind the clothes in your closet.
There's never anything there.
But you don't want the one time you don't check to be the time when you are wrong.
So turn on your light.
Open your door.
And wait for morning.
Or are your not afraid of the fright?
Be emersed in darkness.
Close your door.
And wait for your doom.
You were never that afraid anyway?
I'm sorry that you can't stop the insistent pounding of your heart.
I'm sorry that you're shutting your eyes away from the dark.
I'm sorry, that you were wrong about monsters in shadows.