The Creature

Her tears were a clear as broken glass

Her pain as thick as crimson blood

Years of thoughts hidden behind walls of safety

Safety coming with tally marked legs

She hides behind walls of numb

Behind laughs and jokes and a knowledgeable tongue

Seemingly immune to her own reality

Happy for causing another smile

Screaming ad yelling, she wasn’t a monster

Yet a monster was what she had become

Slowly but surely her seed was planted

Roots growing at a rapid pace

Her charcoal burnt tree shadowing every smile

Every smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes

Through every action thought and word

A creature haunted and twisted her with sickening pain

She selfishly cried wanting it all to end

Another thought, a spark, the end was near

She would sow the seed she planted in her mind

A mind cluttered with blood stained glass

She climbed her shadows to the top of the tree

The creature smiled up proudly

Balancing carefully on the highest rim the girl teetered carefully

Smiling back at the creature she gracefully plummeted towards the ground

And with that the monster was gone

Along with the creature inside her mind