Beware the Devil, honey.
He has gnarled teeth and mangled limbs.
His skin is burnt, blackened,
and charred.
He is the ugliest creature that you can ever
lay your eyes on.
That's what my grandmother told me
when I was a small child.
But she was wrong.
Sometimes the devil can be beautiful.
They can have gorgeous
harmonic voices.
Their hair blonde and eyes blue as the ocean.
They will lure you in,
entrap you in their hunting snares.
Tell you pretty things;
things that you would love to hear.
All lies.
Poison that escapes from their cherry red lips.
They dangle you from
a string around their snarled fingers.
You are their puppet.
They hate everything you are,
and get off
on the pain they force you to feel.