Goodbye, Demon
2nd Saturday Prompt: purge your demon
Goodbye, Demon. Go back to the hole you came from. Scat, hiss, frrrr. Get away, just go, and don’t you dare show me your face ever again.
You mistook my kindness for weakness. It was a mistake.
It is my karma to have to destroy you every single sprint around the galaxy, and this time you’ve made me do it again. Every time I think you’d learn, you’d do better, be better. But expecting better from you is folly, like expecting a shard of glass to kiss and not cut. You are destined to remain what you are — a cowardly demon, capable only of destruction. You will never evolve; you will never ever do better. And therefore, you will never move forward in your journey.
You are stuck, heavy with entitlement, holding all your cards on backfoot, waiting for the tide to turn so you can finally get your payoff. But you’ve suckered yourself out of that payoff too, haven’t you? All the karma you thought you had paid off, and now you go and lay it all aground, all in a day’s work. You’ve destroyed any chances you had for salvage. Now there aren’t any turns left for you, not this time. Not anymore.
It’s been like weaning off a bad habit, like getting slowly cured of a disease. With every passing day, I’ve felt stronger. More confident that I will not slip up, will not…