The Enemy

There is only one true enemy,

The bringer of all the fear,

The tears, the huddles of pain,

That only comes from him

You know the others want to help,

They care and seek to heal,

But they don’t know that all the pain,

Sleeps in the next street

The others are just as scared as you

But never towards him,

And even when you let them know

They won’t let harm befall him

There is only one true enemy,

The target of your hate,

The anger, the flaming wrath

That targets only him

The feeling of fear pervades you

Haunting every step you take

No one around you can be trusted

What if they’re the same?

He comes to you quite often

Pretending it’s all normal

But how can anything be right again

When he is just as awful

As the time that he decided

That you were now the target

When he became the enemy

After being who you trusted

There is only one true enemy

And that is only you

Who allows him to get away with it

For fear that he’ll come again for you