By: Vikki Gladstone
What happens when you love a
Monster?
When you meet a Monster and
look into their eyes and see that deep down, they really just want to be good.
Like a small child who has
been told over and over again “You are a BAD child”.
One who has heard “You will
NEVER amount to anything” and believed it
They just want to be
good.
They want to be good and
cherished and, loved
So you take a chance
You decide that YOUR Monster
deserves to be loved
And you look past their
Monstrosity and love them to their very core
And you find that they are
good after all.
They are good and kind and
they love you back
As your love grows you both
begin to trust
Slowly your Monster begins
telling you their secrets
Those things that MADE them
Monstrous
And you listen
Like a good lover does, you
listen
And you commit their secrets
to memory swearing to never tell
And you continue loving them
And it is easy at first
But then they tell you their
worse secrets
The ones that REALLY made
them Monstrous
And still, you never tell
And you continue loving them
What happens when you keep
their secrets deep inside
Do you, by committing their
secrets to memory, taint your own soul?
Do you become a little Monstrous yourself?
You, who consider yourself
just and kind and Good
Do you become a little Monstrous?
When you sit and think about
the impact of these things
How they tainted your
Monster and made them “Bad”
How could you continue to be
good with their secrets inside you?
You can’t tell anyone
because you promised.
"Good" people keep their
promises.
So then what?
Do you start seeing your
soul as a sort of Monstrous Yin Yang?
With the good outweighing
the Monstrous
Or do you find that instead
of the deep black and stark white of the Yin Yang
That the soul is truly
colored in shades of grey
With the lighter shades
being the “Good” and the darkest shades being the “Monstrous”
When you look inside and
really reflect
Do you find that you too are
a bit Monstrous
Aren’t we all Monsters?
Don’t we all have secret
places in ourselves that we keep hidden
Do we not all have a “Good”
face we show
All the while keeping our
inner Monster a secret
And if we too are Monsters
Do we take the chance and
choose to love our own Monster?
Loving yourself is the greatest
risk you will ever take
And the greatest gift you
can give yourself
I challenge you all to take
a leap of faith
Choose to love your Monster
And see what happens...
