The Space Under the Stairs
Fuqua Middle School Poerty
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: Features
Olivia L. Gordon
There is a space under the stairs where nobody goes,
What is under there nobody knows,
There are scratches in the day and thumps at night,
Whenever they happen it gives me a fright!!,
I got courageous one day and went to take a look,
At what was in that little nook,
What I saw you won't believe,
I thought I was in a dream!!,
There were monsters with hats on jumping around,
And groups of monkeys making weird sounds,
There was also green slime oozing from the wall,
Everyone was down there having a ball,
I went towards a pig looking animal thing,
I tried to talk to it but it started to sing,
So I turned to a bug looking thing-a-ma-jig,
It told me to go ask the pig,
So I went to sit at a small round table,
Sitting there was my sister Mabel!!,
I asked her what was happening here,
And into her face I started to peer,
Because to my surprise I saw her smile,
She said come on sit down for a while,
I did and asked her what's all this?,
She said this is the land or forget-me-not sis,
I said okay like I understood,
She started to explain like I knew she would,
This place in the stairs had been here forever,
Through the wars, and fights, even horrible weather,
Whenever you come here you cannot forget,
Everything that you've seen in it,
It's your own little world from the world,
Around your finger it is curled,
Here there are no rules and that's how it shall stay,
During the night and during the day,
No one is like Mabel and I,
Some of these things have only one eye,
I met the horse slash lady bug,
And then a peanut colored slug,
I also saw a glowing worm,
Plus my good friend M.r. Squirm,
You can't forget that blue balloon,
Or that gigantic purple spoon,
There are so many other friends that I met,
And no one sight I have missed yet,
I go under those stairs every night,
No longer am I filled with fright.
There is a space under the stairs where nobody goes,
What is under there nobody knows,
There are scratches in the day and thumps at night,
Whenever they happen it gives me a fright!!,
I got courageous one day and went to take a look,
At what was in that little nook,
What I saw you won't believe,
I thought I was in a dream!!,
There were monsters with hats on jumping around,
And groups of monkeys making weird sounds,
There was also green slime oozing from the wall,
Everyone was down there having a ball,
I went towards a pig looking animal thing,
I tried to talk to it but it started to sing,
So I turned to a bug looking thing-a-ma-jig,
It told me to go ask the pig,
So I went to sit at a small round table,
Sitting there was my sister Mabel!!,
I asked her what was happening here,
And into her face I started to peer,
Because to my surprise I saw her smile,
She said come on sit down for a while,
I did and asked her what's all this?,
She said this is the land or forget-me-not sis,
I said okay like I understood,
She started to explain like I knew she would,
This place in the stairs had been here forever,
Through the wars, and fights, even horrible weather,
Whenever you come here you cannot forget,
Everything that you've seen in it,
It's your own little world from the world,
Around your finger it is curled,
Here there are no rules and that's how it shall stay,
During the night and during the day,
No one is like Mabel and I,
Some of these things have only one eye,
I met the horse slash lady bug,
And then a peanut colored slug,
I also saw a glowing worm,
Plus my good friend M.r. Squirm,
You can't forget that blue balloon,
Or that gigantic purple spoon,
There are so many other friends that I met,
And no one sight I have missed yet,
I go under those stairs every night,
No longer am I filled with fright.
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