You were always with me, by my side, holding my hand, whispering promises of rage and hate. You darkened my thoughts, blackened my soul, and corrupted a heart that never was whole. I never thought that I could be rid of your foul poison until an angel came to fight for my damned soul. You fought a battle of light and lost. Slinking back to the pit, licking your scorched wounds, you leant towards me, sneered, and whispered in my ear, "I'll be back!"

    The angel, I never met. I felt him at times, near me, protecting me from your brothers and sisters who clawed at me, hoping to entrap me like you did. The angel never held me the way you did. He only spoke but once to me, the night you left, when I was scared you might come back. "Everything is gonna be okay."

    I believed him for a time. My thoughts that had once been so enticingly trapped by darkness, cleared. My blackened soul healed from the light of the angel. My corrupted heart, I've found, will never fully heal. You twisted it beyond recognition. It is malformed so horrendously it can hardly be called a heart. Wrapped in barbed wire, it oozes pitch. I've patched it best I could, but it bleeds throught the bandages.

    And I knew. It would only be for a time that I'd be free from you. The only one who could bind my bleeding heart was the one who wrapped it in wire. You. You'd come, sooner or later. With your sharpened talons reaching out to grab me, fangs elongated and ready to attack.

    By the time I realized, it was too late. You stood before me, wounds scarred over, vengeance in your black eyes. You held me captive. Your arms wrapped around my body, constricting my movements. I couldn't have moved even if I wanted to. I was paralyzed in horror. You spoke to me, the way you used to. Softly, in my ear; a whisper. My mind clouded over. My eyes glossed. All that I was aware of was your words. Venomous lies I believed.

    Then the angel pried your lecherous arms from me.

    Again you fought him.

    And again you lost.

    And again you promised.

    I will never be free.