you can’t always overcome

Monsters are necessary to fight to the end. What might they look like? Big sharp teeth, skin matted with blood, towering over you.

But I have a more permanent monster looming over me. Every time I hang out with friends, or leaving the house to get groceries. Just looking in the mirror everyday I see it behind me, in my eyes and in myself.

I can't slay this monster. I simple coexist with it.