Today's submission to Writing for Young Readers is a poem for 4-8 year olds.

The Monster In My Closet

Dear monster in my closet

You give me quite a scare

I hide beneath my blanket

I hold on tight to Bear

Your skin is slick with goo

There are tangles in your hair

You smell worse than my shoe

The day after the fair

Mom says you don't exist

That you're not really there

Even when I insist

She tells me,  "good night, my dear" 

Night after night you peek

I feel it in the air

I don't know what you seek

You just stand there and stare

Tonight, I will be brave

And fight you, yes, I'll dare

If you take me to your cave

I will destroy your lair

I slide the closet door

The closet floor is bare

Except for my alligator

That I thought was on my chair