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The Last Boogeyman
by Walter Jones (Age: 62)
copyright 08-19-2007
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Age Rating: 13 to 127

 
Touch the soul of a child in the bedroom
Killed the boggy man and the rest of the doom
Imagination left a year or two ago
His dog and mother died in the early snow

Lord help this child learn to pray for better

Candle left lit in the church of remembrance
Nothing in his young life makes any since
Boggy man not real was but a fear created to survive
Closet door open and the tale under the bed dead

Bottle empty left on the table of learning better

Sister and dolly teach him how to fold his prayers
Talked to the God and angels hidden in his heart there
Pain not a word understood and the bogeyman is dead
Bible a new book under the mattress hidden he is learning to read

Tears left in the eyes of the new family wishing for better

Wife takes his hand leads him to the cemetery and helps see
Life is a gift we often leave in the dying sun of a memory
Some will walk the road in search of the bogeyman but he is dead
Wife allows him to smile and comfort the fear of his own son

Days blend into wonder and the child becomes the man again, only, better


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02-05-2008 Nancy Pawley    

No matter what you call him, or how you spell his name, the boogeyman is the fear which resides in all of us and can overtake our lives if we let it. Your poem captures the human need to overcome and survive, thus allowing mankind to make the world a better place. Great write, Walt.
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