Baby Monster Poem by Katerina Val

Curtains
hide
closets
slaughtered pride
time
you have ran out of time

Balls
and triangles
grafted smiles
that forgot how to be childish

compressed smiles
as you toy with your toys
as the toys toy with you

monsters
under your baby bed
atrocities
that you never really controlled

never really managed to console

Chaos in your head
yet better
than the monster lying underneath your bed
yet brighter
than the sunlight unfolding beneath you
burning your feet

Iceberg rising huge underneath your pace
freezing your feet
immobilizing the feel
do you feel?
I bet you are real
but only when the monster underneath your baby bed
climbs the iceberg
steals your breath
hides it in the closet
cuts your hands
and hangs them on the curtain's edges
only then
you can be real
and alive
Real
and alive
until you give in
until you desperately give in

Curiosity…

You have already given in
you giggle
huge smile
and chocked voice
the contortion of your muscles
is only frightening
indicating a gruesome smile
horrified
and perplexed
it's only till
the monster
disassembles you

Baby bear
on your baby bed
clench it on your chest
near you, on you
embalm your chest
your inside
with some cotton from your cloth doll
with some warmth
that flows through the veins of your frozen baby bear
it is your only hope
to hold hope near
it is your only hope
to trick the monster
baby monster