Heavy heart

When you grow up you realize that there isn't really any Santa but the boogie men are still around.. 

If only they were big and hairy; now they're just dark and amorphous and may be nice and sweet.. and they're no longer afraid of the light.. 

Sometimes we hate them.. In other times we love them..

Sometimes we can move over them.. In other times we just can't..

Sometimes they're the guy who climbs in the window and takes your television..

And in other times they're the guy who walks out the front door with your heart in his hand and never comes back.. Never..

And sometimes they're the job or the bank or the wife or the boss or just that sort of dark heavy feeling that sits between your shoulder blades like a backpack... Painful..

There are always terrible things waiting to grab you by the ankle, to pull you under, to get you with their long horrible arms...

And you lie in bed and look at the shadows on the ceiling and feel, under the covers, just for a moment, like you're safe..

One more day alive.