Demons Were Human

writing while thinking about evil, I guess.

they say demons were once human.

how can we hate something that came from us?
demons could still be human.
somewhere deep inside,
is there someone,
something,
scratching at the iron bars of the soul?
dying,
begging,
screaming,
pleading,
to get out?
to escape?
and will that voice ever be heard?
if you aren't saved,
do you become that voice?
deep inside.
buried underneath blood and pain.
begging and crying,
that this isnt what you wanted,
and that,
you can change.
for a second chance,
you'll learn.
to save others,
to save yourself.
what happens when you stop trying
to escape?
when you know for sure that
you can't pick the lock,
and there's not enough good left in your soul to
bargain a way out,
and when you learn
that nothing will cut the bars,
your tears won't melt them.
your hands won't bend them.
when you stop fighting the demon you became,
what happens then?

Reviews

[Larry Dyson]

surrender to what is left and that is exactly what you are calling it..surrender...but do you have an option..?.we know good by the existence of evil...not the surrendering to evil...in all of us there is some good...I suggest you surrender to that goodness?

[bobc]

O...very good questions. I have a similar reaction when someone is labelled 'evil'. They are always human, after all, like all of us. Calling them demons or evil just feels like a convenient way of avoiding something about our own natures...bobc

[Pax]

i called it the darkness that lurks inside the corners of our mind...
it's just there, the demon that hides in the darkness...
as long as we have hope, there will always be light
like i say:

i light up the room inside of me,
for i don't want to dwell on the insanity
it seeks...

well expressed piece!