Monsters

Note: This was written about a month after my first girlfriend told me she needed some time to figure some life things out. Well I found out she had started dating some one else a week earlier. So this was written after the initial pain and hurt were processed.

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Are monsters made or are they
Born without the ability to care?
A quandary of the road that
Nature or nurture the unfairly
Diegned path that leads ever
Onward intent on the bottomless
Need to have someone
Express an unbroken connection
Diamond forged and coated

Slices into the heart of the being
On the inside one cut at a time
Unseen the damage done by
Living with the demons inside
Summoned either by circumstance or bloodline

Cries echoing internally
Reverberate over mental scars
Yet, deep inside down
Inside the mangled being is a
Needy child yearning for
Genuine and unfettered acceptance

Only experiences can unerringly
Uncover each monsters deepest
Truth be it natural inclination or the
Immeasurable sum of the cycle of
Negative normalcy that is their only known

Pull away the outer shell of one labeled
Abomination or evil and reveal a mental web
Inversely woven to be protect what remains of
No longer innocent remains of the
Fragments cast to the winds in the
Uncovered aftermath of
Life's most broken moments

Unravel the mystery of the monster
Reflected back from within the mirror
Gazing back with a story of shattered
Expectations and incomplete teaching
Never fully learned as each painful
Cut form the maelstrom of life strips away
Yet another layer of the humanity within

Fragments of what could have been
Or how everyone else would act if
Required to walk a mile in the
Life of one who has their
Optimistic tendency and positive
View chiseled away by the
Eternal struggle of the light against the dark.

So can you answer if a monster is born
Or if they are made?
Unveiled like some master crafters'
Latest work of priceless art.

3-12-2019