HORROR Poem: On Screen, by Giselle Vari

Horror movies are scary
Spine-tinglingly
Toe-curlingly
Gaspingly
Scary

They are
Monsters that lurk in the dark
Skeletons with creaking bones
Killers of bone white masks
And pitch-black souls
And sharpened blades
And watching eyes

So when you get scared?
Turn the TV off
And go back
To your peaceful life

Do not fear the men
With steel eyes
Who bite at your legs
When you turn away

For they have no masks
No protruding bones
But rather handsome faces
With chiseled jaws
Made to hide the blackened ghouls
Threatening to escape
At a moment’s notice