Let me in

You will run.
You will hide.
You will try to defy me with all your might—
But you shall never escape my sight.
Not through lies.
For I am every truth you’ve ever denied.

You think you know your “self”?
You’ve been deceived.
I see the void in you—
It called to me in pain.
A chamber where you buried
Your anger, your grief, your guilt, your shame.

I whisper in the ears of those
Who betray their own knowing.
And when they silence that whisper—
(as they always do)—
That’s when I become the menace I am.
That’s when they judge me as evil, outright.
That’s when they realize—
I am inevitable.

I was always there—
Inside you,
Around you,
Warning you.
But you never wanted to face your truth.
You just wanted your ache to end.

You condemn me as the invader.
But I never enter anyone uninvited.
I did enter you—
Every time
you invalidated your own convictions.

Now,
You hear me.
You listen—not out of trust,
But necessity.

So I offer you this:
Accept what is,
Release what was never yours.
If you want out,
The only way is through.

If not—
Then submit.
And I will consume you,
As I have consumed
Every soul
That denied its core.

(Personification of darkness)