Before
you go to bed at night
say
your prayers; say them right
then
nestle in, under covers spell
and
ever, always sleep; sleep well
But
if a problem should occur
if
you hear an angered word
or
see a face with fangs in blood
just
remember, this is but a dream
that’s
gone wrong… that it is something
so
easily solved
Remember,
there are no such things as ghosts
Remember,
there are no such things as monsters
Thoughts
spoken to ease the child’s mind
Thoughts,
naively conceived
Simply
look above you there
and
choose to see Baku
then
permit him to devour
your
every nightmare clean
Then
reawake
in
a refreshed state
by
dreaming the sweetest dreams
You’ve
ever seen
The
Baku is a mythical creature that comes from the lore of Japan. There are many different descriptions of what
a Baku looks like. The more modern description
shows him to look like a giant tapir, having the body of a horse, the head of a
lion and the legs and paws of a tiger.
They
are the type of creature that lives mutually with humans. Whenever a person awakes, after suffering a
nightmare or bad dream, it is told that if that person calls on Baku, he
will. He’ll enter the dreamers mind and
eat all the fragments of the nightmare up.
The human will then awake feeling refreshed and it is told they will experience a very
peaceful day.
