I am nobody

Nobody knows who I really am

They can't see what's underneath

The sin that rots my core

The lies that stain my teeth

You think my heart is golden

But that's only the color of my mask

I tip my stolen halo

From your pedestal where I bask

Beneath a doe eyed facade

I am filthy and cold

Spreading my lust and hate

A slight of hand hidden in rays of gold

You can't see what's been done to you

Until I am already a whisper,

Leaving you a hollow husk,

An empty shell with a heart of anger.

I leave you as empty as I

Because misery needs a companion

A path of broken bodies in my wake

Leaving your chest a bleed canyon

I steal your heart

Just to watch it break

Unable to break the cycle

Unable to give what I take

I wish I could feel

I wish I had an ounce of virtue

I wish each ending wasn't inevitable

I wish I wasn't going to hurt you

But I will, you see

Cause that's what I am

A creature of unrelenting pattern

A broken soul forever dammed

I pray for redemption

But I can't change my ways

I beg for forgiveness

Maybe even try a few days

But I always fall

In the end it's all the same

I'll choose wrong again

I am a simple demon, unchanged