SHE SETS FIRE TO YOUR PAIN


Once upon a dark night,
A sprite wandered along the prisons of human finesse
And met the most rejected and unhappy being the world had ever known.
Appearing in human form,
 she tried to hide away before this being could lock his gaze on her.

But it was rather too late…
He found her...
He found solace in her,
Built a comfortable home,
And made her bosom his resting place.

Out of compassion, the sprite gave this forlorn creature a peak of her world.
“My world is as dark as my soul
Step into it and find light” she whispered.
She showed him eye-numbing scenes of this world and beyond…
Where happiness coincided with pain….
And formed a new indescribable ecstasy.
He got drunk in her essence
And slowly he forgot what it meant to be alone and sad.
They travelled the world together…
He called it celestial bliss.

But with each waking moment he spent at her side,
He knew the inevitable will happen.
But it happened too soon.

One day she awoke to her very nature,
Sprites can’t stay in human form forever, you know…
They are demonic body morphers and face shifters
Who are in constant flight doing Hades’ bidding.

And so she had to leave…
And he wanted to cage her in the warmth of his heart.

He bought her gifts so she would stay
He kissed her true so she will never forget.
But when all these efforts proved futile…
He became desperate.

So he stabbed her in the dark of the night….
He’d rather she was dead than have her flee into the arms of another.
He had a god complex
He was a jealous lover.

But little did he know that by stabbing her,
He had liberated her from the grips of his wicked love.
She became free again to help who she chose…
She became free again to possess who she pleased…
She became free again to dominate the men she wanted.
And so when she found another creature with a dying spark in his eyes,
She whispered once again…
“Come into the darkness of my soul…
You will see light…
Come let me possess you….”
I am she….




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