Could you leave your front door open
then sleep soundly throughout the night?
We no longer live in a carefree world
in which you can trust without fright.
Hair stands up on the back of my neck
as the chills run all down my spine,
a fearful feeling while I walk in the dark
like I will surely end up on NBC’s Dateline.
I hate having to triple check my car
to make sure that I pushed the lock,
always thinking I hear kids breaking in
looking for something to hock.
Have you ever turned off the light switch
when you still have to make it upstairs?
Quickly as running across a hot coal bed
frantically skipping up steps in pairs.
I heard that just because you’re paranoid
doesn’t mean that they’re not after you,
the reason I place sage on the window sill?
…well I’m not sure if I believe in voodoo.
What's Inside a Madman's Hat? 
I hear you. Times are changing, time to move off the grid. Stay safe my friend
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Yup lol.
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Does sage work? Hmmm. I better go get some. All kidding aside, things do go bump in the night. Best to be prepared. This piece made me smile. You aren’t alone in feeling this way.
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Haha. I had a situation with a voodoo curse and I burnt so much safe in our house I set off the smoke detectors and left a burn Mark on our kitchen island. Oops
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Haha well as long as it worked then that’s all that counts. Hey I see dead people in my dreams. (I hate going to sleep at night because I never know who is coming to visit). It’s a long story… but it is what it is.
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Same. Also I don’t think the sage vs voodoo worked for me. That’s a really long story and actually can’t talk about it online. But it also ties into the seeing a particular person in my dreams. Life is wild sometimes. But if mine wasn’t I’d be writing children’s books or nursery rhymes haha
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I hear you. I bet we could tell some interesting dream stories. The Kaballah says our loved ones come to us in our dreams when we need them. I have found that to be accurate. However, it gets weird when others come to you asking for help. 😳. But that’s another story… one I don’t talk about much…
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I’ll probably sneak mine out through a poem or 10 somehow lol
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Absolutely not.
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