I AM THE BOO MAN,

You have many questions and thoughts about me,

It is that you believe you have seen me, know of me,

I am in many places; late in the dark I see your faces.

When you think you see me standing alone in your home,

Like a nightmarish dream, you can believe what you see.

I may be at times under your bed when you lay your sleepy head,

Why am I here? Figure it out, what am I all about?

I am the boo man, laugh at you without much of a sound,

Peek at you through a window, just know I am always around.

Follow you I do from place to place, I see you from the street,

You haven’t seen me for a while, maybe tonight you’ll see my face.

From your closet, behind the couch, you never know where I really am,

Every time I show myself, then don’t forget that I am forever the boo man.

                                        Keith Garrett