Monsters

There are monsters inside of me

Finding refuge in the emptiness

They hide when you’re around

But at night they haunt me

They tear at every insecurity

Every weakness

They remind me how much I hate myself

How sad I am when I’m alone

They hurt me in ways that another human never could

The monsters know every thought I’ve ever had

Every fear and every nightmare

They use them against me, knowing I can’t fight back

Because monsters don’t care that I am fragile

Monsters don’t care that at any moment I could snap

They don’t realize that if they break me, they can’t haunt me

Monsters can’t haunt someone that’s dead

- C. Burch