My Monster and Me

Why didn't you stop me

Why didn't you pull me under

Claw at my flesh

Scream at me to stop

Instead you hid under my bed

Like a coward

Every night I waited

Praying you would come

I watched you lurk in the shadows

Never speaking

Keeping your distance

Even as the blood trickled down

You stayed away

Too afraid to approach me

I begged you to take me away

But you turned your back on me

And that's when I saw it

A glimpse of who I feared

The familiar face

Paler than I remembered

All the life had gone from you

From me

From us

Why didn't you stop me