I am the monster. It is I
Who learns to love each word from you
I seek your thoughts, and I comply
For awe and praise, or scorn, anew.
They called me "gifted" then
Deprived of popularity.
They called me a "true friend"
There lies, in truth, disparity.
Though I have everything to lose,
I think it's rational
to choose your joy above my fear,
and tell you what you want to hear.
And both you and I know it
that if you left me, I won't be a poet.
Yet in your silence I'd see light
I ask for just one fan to write.
I am the monster, It is I
Who makes you think the way you do.
I feed you words as stimuli
And twist responses out of you.