XIX : monster inside my head

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. . .

            so many thoughts left unsaid

                       (are you, are you afraid of the monsters

lurking,

                waiting,

                                   (always)  watching (with luminous eyes) beneath your bed?)

                                                  EX PLO D I NG

                                                                                  into amaranth red

. . .


                                                        you

                 cannot help but

supress

                               them

with all of your

                             might

but all you can do is keep them out of

s i g h t )

(o u t  of  sight, o u t  of  mind-------

that's the kind of mask you hide behind)


 ((  coward,

you //w h i s p e r //    to   y o u r s e l f,

but cannot be heard,

             no,

                                 not over the ROARING of your {mind.}   ))


. . .

                                  i'm

not gonna lie,

                              i'm

not gonna hide------


really, i'm actually

                                        t e r r i f i e d

of   the 

                       M O N S T  E R

                                                                                       i n s i d e


i'm

         trying

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