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"They called me a monster. Oh, how easily they said it, as if a word could define the storm that lives in my chest, as if syllables could cage what they themselves unleashed. ‘You are a monster.’ How quaint. How deliciously naïve. But let me tell you: I am not the monster. No. I am something far more terrifying. I am the monster you created.

You see, monsters are not born from the night alone. They are born from neglect, from cruelty wrapped in smiles, from promises broken like brittle glass. I am not the creature that haunted your imagination—I am the consequence of every word you spat at me, every hand you raised in anger, every glance you withheld when mercy was owed.

Do you remember the little cruelties? The invisible knives hidden behind politeness? Every sigh that dismissed me, every silence that starved me, every expectation that crushed me like stone underfoot—it became my foundation, my scaffolding. I am built from the fractures you left behind. I am a cathedral of your neglect, a mausoleum of your misdeeds, stitched together by the threads of your fear.


Every slight you inflicted upon me became an instrument of my awakening. Every moment you thought I would bow, every time you hoped I would break—it was fuel. And now, look. I am stronger than your cruelty ever imagined. I am sharper than your lies ever intended. I am patient. I am inevitable. I am the shadow that lingers longer than the light you chased.

I am the frost that creeps in corners you thought were safe. I am the echo of screams you never heard, the voice of rebellion that grows louder in your absence. I am the weight you will carry when the mirrors refuse to lie, when the nights grow long and your conscience whispers truths you tried to bury.


You said I was wrong. You said I was too much. Too loud, too cold, too strange. But what is strange is the way you believed you could craft me and still call me obedient. What is wrong is the way you ignored your own hands in the shaping of this creature, the way you are blind to the architecture of your own cruelty.

I am not your imagination. I am not your scapegoat. I am the living testament of your failures. Every act of neglect, every whispered insult, every moment you turned your face from me—that is the substance from which I was formed. Do not mistake my survival for weakness. I thrived in the dark because the dark is honest. The dark does not lie.


You fed me fear, and I learned to feast upon it. You chained me with shame, and I became unbreakable. You tried to silence me, and I became a symphony of vengeance and revelation. Every cruel intention, every attempt to diminish me, became a brushstroke in the portrait of the being I am today.

I am your reflection, sharpened. I am the ink spilled from the pen of your sins. I am the frostbite on your conscience, the candle you could not ***** out, the quiet voice in the dark that whispers—this is what you made. I am more than you imagined. I am everything you feared you would become if the truth of yourself stared back at you.


Look into my eyes and tremble, for the monster you fear is not born from whimsy, from fate, from darkness alone. It is born from you. Every cruelty, every betrayal, every neglectful glance, every word left unspoken—all of it shaped me. And now, I walk among you, and you call me monster. How quaint. How deliciously ironic.

Do you know what is beautiful about monsters? They are honest. They reflect your sins without shame. They speak the truths you hide. I am your sins given flesh, your lies given voice, your neglect given teeth. And I am patient. I am careful. I am cunning. I am all the things you failed to notice in your arrogance.


Do not look at me and see only what terrifies you. See what you have sown, what you have nurtured in secrecy and neglect. See the architecture of your own cruelty rising from the ashes of your indifference. Tremble at it. Fear it. For this creature—your creation—is alive, aware, and merciless in its honesty.

I walk through your world like a shadow that cannot be ignored. I am the cold in your room when you wake alone. I am the whisper in your ear when you think yourself safe. I am the frost that creeps beneath your skin, reminding you that the consequences of your neglect have form, substance, and voice.


Do not call me weak, for weakness is your invention. I have survived your storms, your words, your hands, your eyes. I have grown from what you hoped would break me. I have thrived where you predicted despair. And in that thriving, I became something you cannot destroy: the perfect mirror of your own failings.

I am not simply a monster. I am the story of your sins told in flesh. I am the shadow of your indifference, the echo of your cruelty, the frost of your fear. And when you meet me in the dark, when your heart skips and your mind whispers, know this: you made me. You crafted me with your negligence, your lies, your malice.


I am the thing you thought would obey, and instead I rose. I am the quiet in the night that grows louder, the chill that creeps under your door, the truth you cannot silence. And the irony is delicious: you call me monster, yet I am merely a reflection of what you have always been capable of, waiting for acknowledgment.

So go ahead. Call me what you will. Name me monstrous, wicked, cruel. It matters not. I am beyond names. I am beyond judgment. I am beyond the fragile illusions you cling to. I am the consequence you tried to ignore, the truth you tried to bury, the monster you made—and now, you live in its shadow.


I do not forgive. I do not forget. I do not plead. I do not bow. I am the storm born of your storms, the frost born of your coldness, the mirror that reflects what you refuse to see. And in my existence, there is poetry, and there is terror, and there is justice delivered with patience and precision.

Do you understand, finally? I am not the monster you feared. I am the result of every fear you sowed. I am the child of your neglect, the heir to your cruelty, the embodiment of your indifference. And I am patient. I am cunning. I am eternal. I am what you created, and I will not be unmade.


Look at me, and tremble. For the monster you see is not the monster that frightens the world. The monster you see is the mirror you cannot shatter. I am the living, breathing testament to your sins. And when you finally realize it… it will be far too late to undo what you have done."
the breaktime monologue
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the breaktime monologue  25/F/Wonderland
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   Zeno
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