Some Days I am a Monster
I wonder how many people use that phrase and never truly know what it means. Some days, I KNOW I am a monster. I have a second personality that lingers below the surface, waiting for me to slip up and let it loose. Yet sometimes it's as calming as a lover, soothing away all my fears, insecurities, and heartache. In a lot of ways, my emotions are warped. Very warped. This isn't to say I can't be genuine with how I feel, but the actuality is that I can never truly say how I feel. Maybe I'm not as cold-hearted as I used to be - and that's not necessarily a bad thing - but I know I can be cruel. I can be disgustingly brutal.
Some of my writings prove that I can live on raw emotion- but only for a brief amount of time. And then it just shuts off like a button has been pressed. Most of the time, I am reserved, calm, and collected. However, part of me is still very fragile. When I allow - and I do mean allow- myself to feel deeply for someone, even the tiniest of barbs can be hurtful. Most of the time I just shrug them off, but part of me holds on to it and stores it for later. In my mind, I build up a list of all the nasty things that have been said- the fights that ensue- the problems and instabilities. My other personality keeps score even if I try not to. But I'm a creature of habit and survival.
The few people that I've let myself fall in love with hurt me very deeply and on a scale I never thought possible. Maybe they never meant to hurt me, but that's the thing about being hurt - you don't care for the reasons. You just wanna know why they did that. Why they hurt you when they swore they never would or that they didn't mean it. I really thought that some part of me had finally gotten over being abandoned repeatedly by a man - my father - who was supposed to love me unconditionally and never could but I know that I haven't. I don't think I ever will no matter how deeply I try to bury that part of myself.
Maybe one day I'll be able to forgive all the things that have been done to me but first it seems I have to forgive part of myself for being such a cruel twisted freak of nature. I know I'm a beautiful person. I know. But I'm also so dark and deformed that I'm surprised people can even look at me. Some of me embraces the darkness, some of me just turns away. Maybe one day I'll be whole. I just wonder if I'll find the person to help me with that. I hope I've found him. Or at least, someone else to help me with my journey to my own happiness and sense of peace.