i killed her.

she was but a girl with thin skin,

paper cheeks

coloured rose and red by the sky fall.

she drew haggard breaths as the night came closer,

and i just held her.

i held her in my arms

as she strained to breathe and see.

i whispered that things would be ok,

that i wouldn't let her become somebody she wasn't.

and as the creature came out,

inside her mind,

i pulled the trigger.

she died,

along with the monster inside her eyes.

she died herself.