Sweet Dreams Dear Monster

[Lauren]

Sleep now weary monsters,

with all your humane familiar faces

nestled in rest

deep in your pillows

do we share the same dreams?

Ease your minds dear evil beasts

from lurking in dark places

from frightening children

and stealing lives.

In dreams-

you can return to your own child state.

Free from your fangs and claws

Free from you devious ideations

Whether you are the monster I knew as mother

Or some know as daughter

Or some swoon as ****

Rest your burdened pained heart now

And know all is forgiven

In dreams we are free to be safe children

Why must we forget?

Hitler once was a babe in his mothers’ arms

Or that Pol Pot, and Stalin

Once were just children

playing and laughing

and learning and fearing

Why must we forget

their sponges are filling

please choose the nectar of healing

and dream my dearest beast

of violence or vileness

of vigilance or vigilantism

maybe we can see our monsters

as the children

the once were

before their after set in

And maybe we can see the beasts within

our safe human skin

and see that all may be forgiven

in the solice of connection

So goodnight now it's time to rest

all my old and familiar dearest beasts-

I'll leave the night light on

to set you at peace