Monster of the Mind...

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 15 is to write a monster poem. “Assumptions are the most damaging enemies of our mind’s equilibrium... An assumption is an imaginary truth.”— Assumptions are the termites of relationships. You are a foe to joyThe scenarios you erectAre dark and destined to destroyGratitude, gladness and respectAssumption is a monster cursedWith bidding us believe the worst Get thee behind me, foeYou thrive on thought-evoked blood shedAnd vicious, verbal blow for blow In the dark hole inside my head Assumption turns love's sumptuous feastInto a meal fit for a beast Janet Martin