Heinous

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Someone once said that if you talk about the devil he's bound to appear.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Most would keep silent hoping that they'd never be found by such a monster but I prayed for his touch every night.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I knew the devil when I was a child and fell in love with him the first time he taught me that I wasn't as damaged as I was led to believe that I was.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He cared for me helped me learn how to smile and see the world in a different way even though he didn't realize that he had done so.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But they feared him; hated him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So seventeen years ago they ripped him away from me.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What they didn't know was that he had already created a monster in his very image.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I thought I'd never see him again-I finally resigned myself to that. But then he came back just like he promised he always would through that smile of his.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We're together again.</span></p>