The Monsters Poem by Mariah Fisher

The Monsters



Sometimes, just sometimes, you need to let out every thought. Every feeling. Every tear you need to shed. Then, and only then, the monsters stop screaming. They just whisper dirty awful things. It takes everything you have not to cave in to these things the monsters tempt you with. It's just so hard. You try and block every thought. You do fine most of the time. But the sometimes, late at night when the rest of the world sleeps and is at rest, the monsters come whisper their twisted lullabies that make you drift to sleep. Their words resting in your mind as you sleep, etching them into your memory. That's what happens when they monsters words are the only ones you hear. We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realized they were in our heads. That's the sick little game life like to throw at us, isn't it? It likes watching us struggle to keep our heads above the water, drowning in societies words and judgments. Because that's who the monsters really are, aren't they? They live inside us, these monsters created by society, judging and humiliating those people who are the weakest. Who haven't yet succumbed to the pressures of the world. But just you wait, those girls and boys who raise their heads, will be torn down for their passion. No one can survive this world. Everyone ends up falling under the pressure, dropping to his or her knees in defeat. Pressure always wins. Society, no matter how cruel and unforgiving, always wins.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dawn Fuzan 15 May 2014

Mariah I enjoyed every line, keep it up

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Farah Ilyas 02 June 2013

hey this piece seems like a reformative article or short story than poem...besides it has a strong message inside it...bit misanthrope in nature, we people combines to make the society, if everyone should reform only their selves, much more expected to be correct isn't it? but here again need arise to be united nation..well we only hope for the best & do our best to least extent...keep writing

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Lori Hershberger 02 June 2013

No, there's more hope on life than that!

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..... W@king Up..... 01 June 2013

...wow, and interesting write, Mariah! Indeed the monsters live within ourselves, but they live within everyone else too. It just depends on how you deal with that monster and if you can control it. Thanks :)

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Lady Hope 01 June 2013

Its funny how they talk so much about how awful bullying is, when in reality the words that hurt the most come from our own heads. The people labled as weak by the world are usually the strongest.

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