Shadow

My deepest fear, my dearest dread
It doesn't live under the bed
Or in the closet, no instead
its residence is in my head
That monster that is me

It tells me that I'm all alone

To old for help, but still not grown

And when I try to fight I'm shown

The sharpest shame I've ever known

By the monster that is me

It tells me I'm unlovable

A monster unrecov'rable

A puny thing, so shoveable

Too dark for up above, a full-

-on mosnter, that is me.

And knowing it's lying doesn't deaden its claws

Or dullen the fangs that extend from its jaws

It knows where to scratch, where to hurt, where to bite

It knows how to drain me of all will to fight

Cause the monster that hates me, that tries to sedate me

That causes irate me, that never escapes me

That monster, that monster, the thing that most hates me

 

That horrible monster is me. 

Art by Reddit User TallulahDankhead and available here