A Nightmare While Awake

Reality

As kids, we all  fear monsters
The ones we can't see
Things that go bump in the night
Hide in shadow, lurk under our beds.
Fear for being taken
Stolen from our home, hopes, and dreams
Snatched in the darkness by ghouls and goblins
And as we get older we brush them off as not real
Just a myth
As we grow up the monsters remove their masks
And reality kicks in
The true monsters are us
And the illusions that we fear are dreams
Dreams of us becoming what we hide
Yet still we rather not face that we are the monsters
which someone else fears
Because those who do are the true monsters
They were always monsters
Their can't be a man hidden in a monster
But there can be a monster lurking in a man