April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 19 -- a Poem of Scares, then and now

My sister sewing up Adi's (my Beagle dog) Teddy Bear 
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        Scary Things 

There's two scary things in my life 

There's one for my little sister 

one for me, both tamed, still around 

Monster Boogie Man honored well 

To this day Sis peeks 'neath her bed 

Knowing he's not there peeks in case 

She was about five, makes me ten 

I told about that monster 

Boogie Man hides 'neath children's beds 

Seems all my life but not really 

Still go to sleep with dim light on 

Since I was young not liked the dark 

Had my sister walk me at night

Outhouse in back of chicken house 

Young, I was afraid of the dark 

I'd bribe her, let her hold the light 

Remains a small guilt 'cause I told  

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 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Writing Month, Day 19.  We were requested to write casting "your mind back to your own childhood and write a poem about something that scared you – or was used to scare you – and which still haunts you (if only a little bit) today."  

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-nineteen-8/