This story is a bit quirky, and may have interpretations that I did not intend, and maybe this is my nervousness as a first-time author speaking. Despite this, I put my heart and soul into it and so I think it deserves a chance to shine, no matter its flaws.
As pale and scarred as the moon we hunt by
The white leader calls us on in the chase
Many a dark-clad mercenary will die
Beneath our talons, their blood tastes
Like liquid fire burning my reptile brain
Driving me on into the night
With a violent appetite
Not for flesh and blood, but for your thoughts
Have you really forgot
All the ways you failed me when I needed you
How you left me out of your human life
To the nurture of creatures of merciless strife
Did you really think I wouldn't go insane?
Now harvest all your home-grown rue!
Blue, I don't understand why you
Would turn on me, who cared so much
That you would have everything that I could give.
I gave you food, I gave you warmth,
I gave you a bed by my touchscreen hearth
And when you were grown, I gave you a pack
And I was sorry to see your back
Life's cruel to all of us, but it is most cruel
To lose a friend who you thought was true!
I wish that your instinct did not trump all
The good things about you, and make us fall
Into chaos and fear, and we could have remained
True to each other as master and…
My life's a dump, my heart is empty
Bloodstains discolour the road I've trod
I'm a monster, decided from birth
An outcast from the human race.
When I looked between the bars
I saw people partying, I saw them dancing
Their laughter's still ringing in my ears
It drives me on to chancing
Broken limbs and bullets and electric shocks
I just want to dance with you, but you'll never let me
Take your hand and do the rock
Now I'm your nightmare lullaby come to rock you to death
But nightmares are your mind's own making
If only you'd just stop shaking
We could be fine
And if you'd just look, you'd see
I'm one of you, I'm of your kind
Just reach out a little, you'll be amazed when you find
The person who's hiding in me.
I guess I should have known you were unhappy
From the look in your eyes, I just thought it was sappy
I'm the hero of the story, the guy who gets the girl
I guess I forgot to keep her well
I thought we would have a happily ever after
But the sunset rings with God's laughter
If I triumph over you, I've lost a bit of myself.
So conscience, that old Elf on the Shelf
Has caught me drowning in the pleasures of the world
You wanted so much more from me than orders
While I boasted and embroidered
Webs of lies to catch women I didn't know
My best girl was no ho
So when we meet again, I'll hold
My position, I won't fall back
It's my own leadership that went off track
If humanity's going down a monster's throat, let me go down now
It's only fair that I should stand at the prow
In darkness as well as in day
Let the innocent get away
Now Frankenstein faces Frankenbride*
Whether we both win or die, only one can decide.
The dawn was cold and white as death
The day I forced my way through the gates of my trial at life
As I lay on cold glass, bound by the vessels
That brought me life, you touched my face
And spoke to me gently of things I could not understand
But I do now.
You love a woman, a woman loves you
Children to protect, a life ahead
You ask me to spare you.
My face is cruel, but my heart is soft
If I help you, will you care for me
Will you feel safe with me, will you let me play
With your children, and think of me as a needy friend?
I can't speak to you, read my eyes,
Feel my touch, my grisly muzzle
Marking your face with a rose of blood.
Now the moment comes, to face your fears
The sorrows of all these years
Have come to this, and if I die
For once please cry.
Consider this your trial at life.
*In the original novel Frankenstein began the creation of a female monster to be a mate for the first. However, he never finished the project.
