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Elizabeth

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8:05 AM

     mommy tickles my tummy—
     rise and shine!
     wipe those sleepy bugs from your eyes

8:27 AM

     my cereal likes to talk to me;
     snap, crackle, pop!

9:35 AM

     I LOVE YOU, YOU LOVE ME
     WE’RE A HAPPY F-F-FAMI…L...
     
     momma, Barney stopped singing
     
10:03 AM

     mr. bearington, would you 
     care for some more tea?

12:18 PM

     but mommmm! i don’t like the
     crusts on my PB&J

1:40 PM

     i don’t know why mommy
     makes me write these silly words
     
     a - c - h - l - u - o - p - h - o - b - i - a

     i’m gonna grow up and 
     be a princess some day

2:54 PM
     
     yawwwwwn~
     i’m just gonna rest
     my eyes for a bit…

4:01 PM

     hide & seek 
     just you and me,
     benny will never find me
     behind the couch

5:34 PM
     
     awww, i guess the sun got
     tired; bye bye sun!

6:48 PM

     i don’t like peas,
     why do i have to eat
     my peas daddy?

7:12 PM
     
     this is the way i brush my teeth,
     brush my teeth, brush my teeth.

7: 19 PM

     mommy helps me get
     ready for bed —
     pjs, bed time stories
     and good night kisses 

7:31 PM

     do you really have to
     leave momma? just one 
     more story…

7:36 PM

     WAIT MOMMA! 
     you have to leave the 
     light on! 

     *click*

     the monsters don’t like 
     the light...

7:37 PM 

     elizabethhhhhhh…

7:39 PM

     elizabeth, come out to play~

7:40 PM

     m-momma
     make them g-go away 

7:42 PM

     the shadows don’t like me
     they’re everywhere;
     in my closet, under my bed
     they like to hide...

7:43 PM

     growwwwl~
     elizabeth you know you
     can’t hide from us
     mwahahahaha~

7:44 PM

     p-please stop…
     please…...

     STOP LAUGHING!
     
     
7:45 PM

     tap - tap - tap
     we’re coming to get you!!

7:45 PM

     ready or not…

7:45 PM

     here.
     we.
     come.

7:49 PM

     momma, you should 
     have left the light on
For littleblueraccoon's contest: fav.me/d6zm70r

The objective of this contest was a write a piece from a child's perspective describing something terrifying. My immediate response was to delve into what children fear the most. And thus you have young Elizabeth and her battle with darkness. 

This is a new kind of format I'm trying out. I was immensely inspired by PrussianPersephone's piece It is 10:50 p.m. fav.me/d6yx0s2 and I wanted to try something similar with this poem. I would like to give her all the credit for the formatting. 
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That ending...
I think I might have to leave the lights on tonight.