Away with you demon...

Do you know when you're being taken advantage of?

Or when someone else is?

Do you see it as clear as day, while the person being manipulated doesn't?

Hmm...

How do you get someone to understand?  Understand that it isn't right.  That it's inappropriate.  It's wrong.  It's hurtful...

They say you are mistaken.  That you are blind.  Your memory is lacking.  How harsh you are being.

You're trying to help.  To understand.  To help them understand.  Why can't they see that.

But would you?  Understand that is...if the situation was reversed.

Yes, of course I would.  I would see it a mile away.... so you say.

It's hard to judge a situation from afar.  It's easy to find solutions to problems you aren't immersed in.

Right?

Then why do we become so narrow minded?  So consumed. It becomes everything that it is not. You begin telling yourself stories. Get angrier and angrier.

Not to say there is nothing to worry about.  Because there certainly is something... That uncomfortable nagging feeling.  The feeling that makes you feel sick.  The one you can't rid of.  And it's persistent.  Building and ongoing...never ending. Feeling of dismay.  Of fear...of complete discombobulation.  Why is this happening. Why doesn't the person see what this is doing to you. Why are they allowing this to happen.  Is this payback?  Is this intentional?  Haven't you done everything for them?  Why don't they see.  Why is this happening.

How easily the demon sits and watches...as everything you have built breaks apart. The sneer on the face as they watch you.  That knowing look...look of accomplishment...accomplishment of their objective. How it was able to pull you two apart. Why did we allow this to take place?  Why did he allow the demon in our home?  Does he not recognize?  How could he not see.  He certainly saw when you attempted to bring a demon into your lives...  why is he blind now?

The demon being accomplished, knows exactly what it is doing.  It smiles at our failure...failure to communicate.  Failure to understand.  Failure to acknowledge.  Failure to listen...failure to love fully and completely.  It feels it has won.

NO.  Not yet demon.  There is still fight left is me.  To not let go.  To hold on to hope.  Hope of what we were once and hope of what we can be again....  Stay with me, keep holding on...don't lose the grip my love.  

I trust you...still.