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My confession


Looking at you as a monster was easier

for me to perceive than imagining that you were just a decent human being 

who made a 

 

mistake. 

 
Whatever the answer is I 
 
 
think I'd rather not know. 
 
I've lived my whole life imagining that people were good, at the very center of what made a human was goodness-but our free will allowed us to fail time and time again. 
 
The constant choice. 
 
 
in the sea of limitless choices there 
 
 
are
 
 
bound to be a few bad ones. 
 
That's just basic math, statistics. 
 
 
I have to admit I spent countless nights imagining what I was going to say to you. You have to understand that I process and collect things differently than the majority of people. I've never been one to conform, and 
 
 
 
I spent my whole life hiding my emotions and I think I've gotten quite good at it 

 

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