My Secret Place
By Mike Wolke

There’s a secret place inside my head
Where no one’s allowed to go.
There, stands a guard, a wee small ogre
A neon sign and a single world of “No.”
This secret place is neither good nor bad
But, belongs to me alone.
I hide my precious treasures there
Within this chambered zone.
Once I thought I’d share this place
With a person who I’d found.
But I changed my mind, and instead
Got a puppy from the pound.
The puppy doesn’t want inside my head
Where no one’s allowed to go.
He just wants to be fed and loved
And to go everywhere I go.
My secret place is as safe today
As it was the day before.
And no one shall gain entrance there
For now and evermore.