There are many strange and scary things in the world, Michael Jackson, Joan Rivers, In Sync, Rosie O'Donnell, Howard Dean...but how many more lurk behind the thin veil of our perceived reality?

There is this thing that hides in my basement.

You cannot see it in the light.

It is silent and deadly, I am sure

and it only comes out at night

 

As a child I was horribly afraid

to go down there at night all alone,

knowing some terrible fate would await

like tearing my flesh from the bone

 

My dad said I was a sissy, the basement was all right

and made me go down just to prove it was so.

Then came the dreaded moment when I turned off the light

and ran madly up the stairs as fast as I could go

 

I knew, you understand, yes, I definitely KNEW

the un-namable monster was hot on my heels.

I could feel it’s fetid breath on the rising hair on my neck,

the terror making my heart pound, maybe you know how that feels.

 

It never caught me, this god-awful Thing

and it’s been many decades since I left that old house,

yet I still have qualms going downstairs in the dark.

When I turn off the light to come up, God forbid I hear a mouse.

 

For as sure as I’m alive, I know deep in my soul

I will still run up the stairs like crazy, heart rate too high

and one night I will be finally too old and too slow

then the un-namable Thing will catch me and I will die.
 

I have a theory, you see, that explains it all.

There is another metaphysical dimension

perhaps a parallel universe or alternate world

just outside our limited sensory perception

 

But when the conditions are right and we elevate our focus,

(The Thing is real, you all know that is true )

our very concentration becomes a locus.

So stay out of dark basements, whatever you do!