Here is your free read for Halloween this year. I would love to know your thoughts. Stay safe, everyone.
Give me a monster, I’ll make it mine
Give me a beast, I’ll make it divine
I’m over the fear, the heartache and lies
I’ll look it over with internal eyes
Give me your worst, I won’t give it my best
I won’t even put my strength to the test
Do what you want, say what you please
I don’t even care if I fall to my knees
I’m already down there, I already fell
Just give me a monster to drag down to hell
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Give me your beasts of burden and woe
Give me your reasons for making me go
Laugh at my weaknesses, mock all my chores
I’ll listen later, while you’re keeping scores
Give me your mockery, make it a chain
To hang round my neck and then call me vain
Act like it’s you whose been turned around
Keep kicking and lying while I’m on the ground
The bruises are badges, the scars are all real
But they are all numb, and who cares how I feel
So give me your monsters, give me your demons
Thrown down your ghouls, your spirits and phantoms
Shrug them off your shoulders, put them on mine
Float away empty, leave them behind
Let them all drown me under their weight
Don’t turn around, it’s already too late
I want to embrace them. I want them in sight
At least I know where they go at night
Beneath a mound of flesh, blood and bone
I watch you leave, but you’re not alone
You throw back your head, you laugh at your win
But I see a mottled hand rest on your skin
Even before you are out of view
A monster is settling on top of you
A tail around your neck, a hand on your arm
Crooning soft and low, swearing no harm
Now a beast with horns, now a black dog
Now you’re almost lost in a billow of fog
I understand at last, to the depths of my bones
You’re dealing with monsters and beasts of your own
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