"Malevolence"
In the darkness that lingers
around us all
there exists something
that tempts us,
chooses us,
and crushes us,
inside a paradox of sweetest things.
It knows
when you think of it
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and pounces its whole existence
at once
to where ever welcomes it.
It sits in your room
waiting patiently
looming ever closer
as your mind wanders towards it.
Knowing the very moment
to engulf your reality
overwhelming your mind
in horrors
you never wanted to see.
It grants you
that all you know
has some truth
for that would be your proof
to believe,
Because in all that was misleading
in its words
there would be a base
to fake its truth to you.
As your strength falters
nothing you knew
would hold true
when the temptations
finally overwhelmed you.
You would never know
you gave in so long ago
before this moment,
A failure it knows all too well,
And savors on the taste of it.
Beginning again
your own demise
behind your tired eyes
of a few moments before
you so blindly gave away
all that was of worth,
Its words have burned
through your soul
tearing apart
your mind
leaving the shell of a person,
lifeless and hollow.
A person who will never understand
all they wanted to know.
A person in eternal damnation
of their own making,
burning in the fires of misery
Never knowing the lies
were the the only truths
they realized.
-Armando Torres
