Did you remember a mere five days before

I bid you hello and you never blinked an eye

Now you stand before me with a thousand goodbyes

And it is like your mouth has been sewn shut

When you would tell me all that raced through your flawed mind

I would have no ears to hear your demented words

That wind and twist their way around my bloodless brain

Fervently seeking an entrance, but never finding one

The people that I have hated now crowd around me

I now have their praise, their attention, their flowers

But know not that I have anything

In the deepest recesses of my deadened thoughts

There lies the harshest criticisms, the ignorant phrases

And the memory of what they perceived me to be

A monster, a demon, a nightmare, something to make them fear

Something horrid to make the perfect angels weep tears of blood

A miracle has taken place in this new home of mine

I now am the light to chase the terror far, far away

I was benevolent, I was joy, I was gorgeous, I was love

A word more of praise and I would take their false god’s place

A word that I would never hear

Why did I not think of this idea before?

This fragile, yet drastic series of events we know as life

Brought them anguish enough for six times their amount

And selfish as I was, I had the power to make myself someone great

But no, the demon craved life and vitality, and thwarted your wish

As the lid is drawn on top of my home

And the book of my life is closed shut and left to an old, dusty shelf

And the tears splash atop my cold, emotionless face

My secret suspicion comes out to play, to dance upon my grave

That I could only be appreciated when silenced forever.