For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge,
poets write a poem a day in the month of November.
Day 15 is to write a monster poem.
“Assumptions are the most damaging enemies of our mind’s equilibrium...
An assumption is an imaginary truth.”
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
You are a foe to joy
The scenarios you erect
Are dark and destined to destroy
Gratitude, gladness and respect
Assumption is a monster cursed
With bidding us believe the worst
Get thee behind me, foe
You thrive on thought-evoked blood shed
And vicious, verbal blow for blow
In the dark hole inside my head
Assumption turns love's sumptuous feast
Into a meal fit for a beast
Janet Martin
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