There’s someone right behind me

Their breath hot on my neck

Their arrival is so timely

Keeping my happiness in check

I could say I didn’t expect it

I could say I did not know

But this visitor inside me

Has caused the monster to grow

It’s claws reach for me in fury

Telling me I don’t belong

I dream of them so purely

It’s voice in every song

While these shadows haunt me

and I wish they’d go away

My mind speaks, to taunt me

“You’re better if it stays”