My mother once told me
you can't erase what you write in ink.
I'm afraid I did not think
when I instead wrote in my own blood and tears,
reciting my worst fears.
Yet all I did was sit and watch as they
refused to go away.
Somehow I could not get their faces out of my home.
So I called to you as I let them roam,
and you told me that if I just waited,
that the monsters I created
would eventually be filled with hatred.
They would surround my mind,
wait until I was blind,
then stab my glowing soul,
until there was nothing but a dark hole.
I eventually killed them,
leaving no water and no air
until they were shriveled and frail.
They seemed unable to grow,
with the numbing snow.
It seems as though,
you never really wanted me,
and were just here for the show.
And once those monsters disappeared,
all signs of your existence cleared.
I sometimes wonder
if I just made you up, or if somehow
when you dragged me out of my darkness I left you under.