A thundering whisper won’t be ignored.

In the dead of night it leaves you forever transformed.

It whispers in your ear, intense and malicious.

It coils around your ear and nestles on your heart so vicious.

It will do anything to get what it desires,

A ruthless force, it’ll do anything their will requires.

The sound so subdued,

But it calls out to you and barely intrudes.

Hope may be bleak, because there’s no way to defeat this beast.

But listen up, because there is a way we can stop it from its feast.

Smile, be positive, and say in a commanding voice,

“You don’t control me and I have a choice.”

It will whimper in fear and hide away

It will never bother you any day.