a common theme in my life is people being ānot readyā to love me or theyāre afraid to love me. why is loving me so difficult, so scary? i truly thought the monsters i hid so well were tended to, given their water and food and healing. so then why is it so scary to love me?
those monsters while healed and hidden arenāt ones to attack others. no, theyāre to attack me. youāre not the one in danger. no i am. iām the one who is battling my own demons, my own monsters. you donāt have to battle them for me. theyāre not for you to fight. iām not for you to fight.
maybe what they need is love too. all of us just need a little tending to. we donāt bite. not anymore. thereās such little fight in us for others. the only fight we have is for ourself.
and maybe thats what i need to focus on. my monsters, my demons, my heart, my fight. no one else need tend to me. i can tend to myself. i wonāt need him. not forever. not even now do i need him. i just wanted a forever with him, with the promises he so brazenly brandished. but those are nonexistent; null and void. just another void from another boy.
just another void so a new monster has a place at the table. welcome aboard, new monster. itās a long table of monsters, of demons, of voids waiting to be filled by more of them.
iām exhausted.












