Roommates in my Head

Pain? What pain?

I said through gritted teeth.

The devil's voices said

The pain you always have.

The pain you'll always have.

Their words always sicken me.

It's sometimes hard to know the

difference between a hard truth

and a lie.

You're ugly

they say

You're fat

they say

You know that you're as dumb as a donkey

they say.

I cry as they laugh and scurry to watch 

horror movies in my head.

I'm always the main character, they

like the ones where I get beat up

and left for dead.

I never survive.

I sigh, as the screen is crimson with my 

blood and tears. 

I wish that you would at least pay rent 

I say.