
I don’t know where it came from
Somehow it’s always been there
Watching, taunting, mocking me
Blinkless eyes and empty stare
I must’ve thrown it out
A thousand times before
To find it back again
And watching me once more
I locked it in the attic
In shadows black and deep
For once I felt so peaceful
For once my fears could sleep
I went about my life
The evil thing was gone
And yet it lurked above
Its moment yet to come
And come it did one day
When feeling battered, living,
I found it waiting for me
Familiar comfort giving
Slowly I succumbed
And falling at its perch
Delivered to it offerings
With reverence besmirched
As the world outside grew colder
The evil was an ally
My confidante and succor
On whom I could rely
But it was I grown cold
My own eyes grown dim
The evil wore me down
I ushered in the grim
I’ve woke up to the truth
I know it’s not my friend
I know it wants to kill me
It wants to see my end
I want to throw it out again
Remove it from my midst
But I can feel it watching me
Its blinkless eyes affixed
I made a home for evil
And turned my back to all
Alone with the empty eyes
Of a simple kewpie doll