"Blood-covered" Inspired by Hatchet Girls:

Blood-covered

The voices started,

and I didn’t know what to do.

I ignored them,

and they just got louder.

Anyone else would have told me

I was going crazy—

as if I didn’t know that—

but I trusted you,

and you trusted me,

so I obeyed.

The voices helped me make a plan,

a plan that proved I was crazy,

a plan I didn’t tell you.

The plan was flawed,

and I didn’t know what to do.

Then you walked in

like a savior

as I sat covered in blood.

Anyone else would have called me

crazy, murderer, monster—

as if I didn’t know that—

and I trusted you to save me.

But you were

the voices in my head.

I may have been persuaded to be crazy,

but you were the monster who persuaded.