Mental Instability

Enjoy your innocence

for it never ever lasts.

The world will suck you into a void of 

awareness, commercialism, and greed.

"What is normal?"  She slowly speaks

into the cold winter air.

Poor little 9-year-old girl

clutching her black one-eyed teddy bear.

Tears stained her face

already frozen.

So frozen

she was just about ready to shatter.

She may live the life of a princess

but in her delusional mind

stuffed animals and fairy tales attack her while she sleeps.

"Is this just a daydream?" Her innocent mind wonders

as she lies warm in her bed but still cold for it's her against her own world.

Everyone thought she was a bad little girl

and punished for her supposed wrongdoings.

So she became a bad little girl

and did what the evil stuffed animals told her to that choked her in the night.

She listened to the voices of the fairy tales that taunted her in her nightmares.

Now that her innocence has fled

the restraints on her wrists are tightened.

She suffers alone

alone she remains.

No more stuffed animals and no more fairy tales.

They were all just shadows

and they were all just voices...

Right?