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A Message to The Villain: Flood the world with light

This is very raw. So I will advise getting a tissue. I am broken by what is happening in the world right now. I am sick to my stomach. But all I can do is write. So help me come up with a plan. As I sit here and cry. I love all of you, but we can’t keep going on like this anymore.

By Caitlin CharltonPublished about a year ago • 3 min read
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I wish I could put the world into a snow globe. Water and glycerin so I could make it all happen ploddingly. All the evil so I could rub it away, it’ll be my genie. I would wish for the thought of killing to turn into legends, myths and tales. Events would pause in words, and would only go on when you turn the page.

Please don’t turn the page.

I can’t ask why I live among someone who could pick up a gun. Pushing me towards the grave as if I needed to be wheeled. My final words like peanut butter in my mouth, stuck to the palate. Nothing goes in and out anymore as I die under their hands. They become like a god, proficient in wiping out what they do not like. Who they will not acquiesce.

So I am asking you. How long will you go on ignoring that there are people like this?

What can you do to help stop this anguish?

As the person reading this, do you walk around acting in ways you do not think about?

Do you have urges you don’t act on? Urges that you cannot say without shame.

Then that’s a sign we are doomed to stay with the creatures here. Hunting us down like weak deers drinking beer.

I find myself considering. What is the point of pouring into a world like this? No, not to the point of suicide. But I can’t build a house with materials like, solace, or consolation. I can’t keep the heat in with resources like tranquility in winter. Just to all be taken away again.

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Gone are the days when my mind wasn’t trained on spotting inconsistent evil in the corner of my eye.

At an event.

A gathering.

A moment of debate.

You left it open. Your body is on display for someone to puncture. In their eyes you’re not human, just a human sized doll. So if you bleed it’s nothing but loose strawberry jam.

Now that you’re dead.

They all will celebrate.

Forget the belief and whether you agreed with him.

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What matters is. His body is like yours, with an expiry date. People like you rewrite the date. You’ve got The Great Seal, a kings blood runs in your vein.

If you could be the person who pulled the trigger. You could wear the skin of the one who got shot. Then you could be multiple bodies. You could be the person watching. That’s how you start to feel again, enough to make a change within to shine your light. Blotting out the evil in your neighbours eyes.

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So I am surprised at how safe we all still feel in this world. They took the children, the house, and the salary. The ones still living that’s another thing on the list. Put a bullet there and wash your hands, it’s all sorted.

All the things that make the hands on the clock turn. They took it and threw it in the bin, then watched it burn.

They grin Cheshire. They are not mad, just evil.

They are not mad. The prison won’t change them. A job won’t sterilise them. They need more than hot water to make them clean again. More than soap sods to hide the ugly tendrils snaking up our backs.

They are not a bunch of mason jars, they won’t crack with just prayers. You need the light! Someone who is inexperienced in the realm of evil thoughts.

Do you know anyone like this? That’s right. We are all doomed now.

Every time we turn on the news. We see another one shot. A son stabbing his father, the medication ran out.

Then there is us. Running around asking. How could this happen?

Why wasn’t anyone there to help?

That's right. We are doing this to ourselves.

It doesn’t matter whose face it was or whose hand held it.

The single truth to tip the scale is that we are feeding the beast and it will prevail.

So look down in the spiral.

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Hypnotise yourself.

Let us all believe that there is good in us.

Yes I am angry.

I am angry at you and myself.

Wondering if there’s any point in reaching for my goals and pursuing a purpose.

I am sick to my stomach.

Sick of this life entering into my dreams, the sacred grounds of stillness.

Waking up not to the morning's gentle taste. But to a bitter reality. That the day before is still really happening.

A/N: I have nothing else left to say. Besides, thank you so much for reading if you got this far 🙏🏽💔

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About the Creator

Caitlin Charlton

Writer first. Close reader and self‑taught critic shaping eloquence.

A survivor reclaiming her territory.

I write dark fiction and poetry through symbol, shadow, and fracture.

Always sharpening the craft. ✏️🔥👠

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