All Around Me

by Khysani Myrical

The "ghosts" haunting Starscream's mind slowly take over his sanity and will, changing him into something he doesn't understand.

All Around Me

I am surrounded by these ghosts.

All around me,

Single-souled spirits lurk,

Teasing me

With their sensual lies.

Among them I see

Pain, Misery

Darkness, Insanity;

Each of them a part of me.

Encased in ethereal light,

They find me,

Though in the recesses of my mind,

I thought I was safe.

They're all around me.

I am the prey.

In this nightmare they stalk me;

I can't get away.

I scream as they advance,

But Pain seizes me,

Igniting my senses on fire.

Insanity laughs at my Misery,

While the Darkness whispers that He loves me.

White hot sensations blossom across my body,

Engulfing me,

Changing me,

Making me into something I don't know.

In my pipes,

My Energon boils,

Heating a rage I didn't know I had.

All around me,

My ghosts congratulate me.

The transformation has finished.

Who is this monster that I have become?

Why can't the voices leave me alone?

What have I done to deserve this?

My suffering makes the ghosts substantial,

And I just wish for it all to end.

All around me,

I see them,

The instruments of my destruction, alongside the victims of my wrath.

Why am I falling?

I'm spiraling down the decent into hate-sparked madness,

Descending into fiery dementia,

And nothing

Nothing

Nothing,

Can make me

Me again.