how to love a monster:
i’m fine,
i’m fine,
i’m fine.
cigarette smoke leaks
through cracks left behind
from a broken home -
a broken boy
with broken bones
and broken dreams
who just wants to be
fine.

how to love a monster:
the monster’s fallen.
he’s choking on the ashes
of a life lost to the flames -
he’ll choke
and choke
and choke
until he can pretend it’s gone.
pretend
pretend
pretend
as he turns to dust from
the inside out.

how to love a monster:
perhaps an inferno consumes
it all,
but who’s to say nothing
rises from the flames?