Evil Grin in the Mirror

I can't look at myself in the mirror

I stare and I'm met with an evil grin

He's stripped me of empathy and care

He feeds my vices and bad habits

Slowly withering away at the seams of my integrity

Words fall out of my mouth like sharpened razor blades

Slowly slicing the skin of those in my path

Who knew words could be so pernicious

Who knew words could be so destructive

The shade of my character haunts me like an unfamiliar shadow

The shade grows colder with every victim of my self-sabotage

I try to avoid mirrors now

I don't like seeing what I've become