Waking up

She wouldn’t think much

Get up and look in the mirror

And stare at the façade

That stood in front of her

She’d go to school

Smile to friends

Stayed proud and optimistic

But most of all

Gaze at him

Was he a friend?

She didn’t know for herself

Sentences would flow out of her mouth

And he would advert his eyes and stare blankly

Never really sure if he was truly listening.

The blood was flowing

Too thickly from his ears

For her to try and stop it

Yet she tried and tried

With that scrap of cloth

To make some effort in mopping it up

To her his eyes were gone

Never seeing them and never knowing

Truly what he was thinking

His soul was hidden

And she could not find it

His lips were sewn together

But the more she stuck around

The more they became loose

They never left

Still confining him in a eerie silence

Every time he’d walk away

Or ignore her

She felt his large hidden claws

Scrape into her heart

Just enough for it to sting

1 o’clock in the morning

She stares at her clock

He lingers in her mind

Wondering what he dreams

When he can see nothing

She laid there

All alone just staring at the ceiling

She wondered if he thought of her

Wondered if anyone thought of her

Or dreamt of her

She was a ghost

Fading distantly away from people

Just getting up

To see the next day

Was becoming harder and harder

He only got worse

His lips began to bleed

As he tightened his stitches
His scrapes and punches

Only more violent

His ears became clogged

With his own blood

His eyes still lost

A ice fortress in their place

Forbidding anyone to enter his hopes and dreams

She never did see his soul

She never got to listen to his desires

He had turned into a monster

Before her eyes

Yet she still yearned for him

Curious of his secrets

He only grew more grotesque

The more she tried to help

But she was not afraid

He was hurting her

And he didn’t know it

He didn’t know

How badly she wanted to see his soul

How badly she wanted to see the real him

He kept trying to push her away

Growing new limbs or bleeding more

Trying to scare her away

Just get her away from him

And his secrets

He didn’t know

That this only made her more interested

And all the more hurt

Because he hated her

And she loved him

And she would never be

The one that made him

Monster

Into man.