I think of the times where no one was around. I was scared.
Not of the dark, but what was lurking there.
There are things hiding in the shadows.
Dark shapes emerging from nowhere.
I stay, cowering.
I could feel their presence,
See them from the corner of my eye.
It was a lie, saying there isn’t anything to be afraid of.
I couldn’t hide from them, not at night or even in the light.

He was the demon of darkness, the evil one.
His doomed deeds were not at all done.
The torture that they endured from his hand alone
Was enough for them never to come home.

She said,
I want to die
Just let me die.
And I felt her words
Throughout the entirety of my soul
Because I knew
I knew.

We sat there stroking her back
He and I.
As she kept saying
I want to die
I looked up at him
And I saw it in his eyes
And he saw it in mine
Because he knew.
He knew.

Three broken people
Sitting at a party together.
Her sober thoughts coming out
As drunk words.
I heard it in her voice,
He saw it in my eyes,
I saw it in his eyes,
And for one second,
None of us were alone
Together we shared the pain.
Because we knew.
We knew.

My trust is shattered.
I am dead inside.
You are all that mattered.
I used to let my demons hide;
You told me you could handle it.
Was I wrong to let you in?
Was it wrong to commit?
Now I think my demons are going to win...