Too Scared, I Guess Poem by Nick Kler

There is this place inside of me
I never go in there
too scared, I guess

Some people are trapped in there
i hear them crying all night
sometimes, they scream in the daylight

I have tried to open that door
with a long 6’ pole
but they just don't wana come out
too scared, I guess

Sometimes, I hear a haunting laugh
burning of skin with a cigarette light
then, I don’t hear them for a while
it really gets quiet inside

Someone is torturing a little child
a grown man is pleading for his life
all this happening inside of this place
I never go in there
too scared, I guess

Nick Kler