Monsters

Innocent monsters

Lurking beneath the starry skies

Lighting up your blackened world

And your violent lullabies-

Another dream drifting away

Into the ocean of bloody tears

My feelings undulate between contentment and regret

As the tide drowns me in my worst fears.

If the monsters would go away;

Lurking in the darkest crevices of my mind

Maybe then I could learn to be saved-

But my soul I'd have to leave behind.

Is it really worth it, losing all of myself?

I'll smile for a day, perhaps, but I'd become someone else

And maybe there is some sort of pleasant compensation in the pain

So I suppose that, for now, I'll simply let the monsters stay.