Bedtime....

by Hailey Butler
(Caldwell, Id., US)

Here I lay in my bed.
Alone & in the dark.
I'm afraid, but not because
of the dark.
I'm afraid that it will
find me,
when I don't want to be
found.
In the back of my
mind, something is
telling me to die... and I
just might let it
find me.