We all have

Skeletons

Yet some of them lurk

A bit close

Skeletons have marked us

Changed us

They scare us

Into thinking hope

Is gone

These skeletons

Feed off our

Fear

And take over

What is ours

The skeletons

Hurt us

Although we can't

Even see them

Skeletons are always

There

To haunt us

To make us feel

Less than we are

Skeletons are

People

Dreams

Actions

Attitudes

They are what break

Strong people down

Skeletons can make us

Into shadows of ourselves

Without even being seen

They lurk in the

Shadows

Miles away

Or within a few

Inches

They drag us down

It takes strength

To shake a skeleton

Off of us

It takes a special person

To destroy them

To turn

The skeletons

To dust

To take them

To a place

Where they can haunt us

No more