A Girl Who Knew Too Much

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I saw people dying in the war, 

Heard bullets and explosions. 

I saw everything bombarding

And felt my loved ones leave. 

Trembling with fear; I hid under my bed

And there I lay wailing in pain: 

When suddenly I heard a child screaming

From somewhere above the bed. 

Unaware of what lay ahead, 

She was calling out to her mother

Saying there was a monster under her bed;

They say "If we are true to ourselves,

We cannot be false to anyone else." 

But would I tell that to my younger self? 

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