There are many monsters who over the years have entertained
me and I could tell you about these, how alluring Dracula is with his vampire lust for
eternal life. I could also tell you how I could feel sympathy for a monster
such as Frankenstein. He did not choose to be a monster and he is totally
misunderstood. There are also a thousand creepy monsters out there. Folklore
has left us with the Boogie man and the monster under the bed. There are the
creepy kind of monsters like clowns, which Steven King described so well, and
the psychotic kind like chain saw serial killers or Hannibal Lector. They are
Epic, right? And then again ghosts which I do not consider monsters at all. I
could tell you about the monsters through fiction that have scared me,
entertained me or just fascinated me, but…I choose to tell you about real
monsters. You know they are out there; sometimes you are faced to force them.
Sometimes you have no choice but to wait for the day impatiently when you can
slay them. You question your humanity because you really want to kill that
monster others call a man.
This monster wears the clothes of an ordinary man. He comes in all colors, shapes and sizes. He is a
familiar face in the community he lives in. Everyone knows him as the helpful
neighbor next door. Yes, he is everyone’s friend because no one knows the
monster that is hiding behind this familiar friend. The man whose children
befriends yours, and becomes your friend while he waits for the time to be right. Unsuspecting
victims gather around him and he smiles hiding his real monsters face. Only small young
children see him for the monster he truly is, but then it is already too late. He whispers to them and at first
in their innocence they listen, then later they shiver in terror at his plans.
With a knife at their throats he threatens their life and the life of everyone
they love. For years these small children do as they are told; they believe the
lies of this monster as it steals their innocence from them.
We like to think our children are safe. We do our best to
protect them from monsters like these. You may think that your children are
safe and years later find out, that they were not. When these are the monsters
of your nightmares then you will truly know what a monster is. These are the
monsters with an ordinary face that roam free to terrorize and steal from our
children any hope for a normal life. They then cast us into never ending
despair and a web of deceit as we uncover the lies and do our best to protect
the adult that once was a child. Monsters are real. The worst kinds are the
ones you don't see until it is too late.
For more monsters check out other posts in this bloghop.
