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The Great Demon

February 28, 2019
By YayNayMayBay BRONZE, Cerritos, California
YayNayMayBay BRONZE, Cerritos, California
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The great demon

Who or what is it

Vicious

and Destructive

and red like blood and blue like deep sea

Headbanging, rock and roll, tanking militant pilgrim.

The great demon is a passionate and fiery and icy and powerful

Take all your cruel desires and sins of yourself

Your guilt and hone it into a weapon

Drive it home into your heart because you love to suffer

And you do it to yourself

 Satisfaction from making sure you’re the only one you hurt

  Selfless selfish

   Because the great demon is you

    And you hate yourself

    With your pitiful expressions

    Talking about how you never want to hurt anyone

    Or impose yourself onto them

    Ultra aware of all your goddamn flaws onto people who never asked for it

    You do no good to anyone

    Because they do not seem to fawn over you

   Don’t you wish they told you they loved you

  Don’t you wish they gave you compliments

 If no one says it, then does it mean no one means it

If no one says they love you, then does it mean

No one loves you

Heavy is the head that wears the crown

No one would care

And who are you

To assume for other’s

When your own opinions

Are flawed, another sin

Go f**k yourself

Selfish b***h

You are only talking

To yourself


The author's comments:

I really like letting out all my angst in my poems, even if I don't feel like it during the writing. I think back to previous emotions that caused me turmoil and changing it into something else more helpful as a healthy coping mechanism. I tried to explain this feeling of false selfishness that I think a lot of people experience, and I wrote the poem in the shape of crown, like holding yourself to a tyrannical moral standard. The lines breaks were so that the edges were symmetrical but also to emphasize what was important. Most people see "demon" as something otherworldly and religious, but it can be related to humanity.


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