Darkness Within

Summary

There was a time in your life when every day you spent hours poking and prodding your body, lifting up pieces of skin, and checking the smallest corners for any hint of animalistic qualities. Any sign that you weren’t just some boring human who was stuck living an ordinary life. You wanted to be like the kid who grew wings, the one who could hypnotize souls with a single octave, or even the one who had a penchant for music and dancing!

But when you wake up one day to the smell of burning flesh and the noises of people wasting their last few breaths on not saying goodbye to their loved ones, but screaming out in pain until their bodies is devoid of energy - you realize that maybe, your wish, in fact, wasn’t a beautiful desire but instead a dark and twisted path that was built on a mountain cliff that had tiny pebbles skidding off the edge whenever you moved. a desire that instead would have you praying and clinging to that sliver of normalcy that you once would kick and send towards a crumbled-up curb for the purpose of it getting drenched in water whenever a car drove by.

You realize that, now, you have what you always wanted, but at the cost of everything you once had.