Den of Vipers

by K.A. Knight

Some are born greedy, an addictive personality. Others hide it well, but in the end, we’re all the same. We all bleed the same colour, and we are all just searching for something to make the truth of our souls disappear so we feel like good people.

They picked the wrong fucking girl. I’ve been fighting longer than I’ve been walking.

Deep down, we all do things that are considered bad, even for good causes.

We’re monsters, vipers, and to love a monster makes you one of the strongest people in the world.

I’ll protect the crying boy with the blood on his hands and she will be the key.

I never needed a knight. I needed a body to stand with me in the dark,

A woman can be strong and weak. Beautiful and scarred. Scared and brave. Smart and sexy.

Each one was earned, and it shows you survived something most others wouldn’t.

Those who love us have the opportunity to hurt us the worst, and in my experience, they always do.

It took a lot of years, fuck, I still flinch now. I still have nightmares, it doesn’t just go away—trauma sticks with you every day of your life.

But we have a choice whether to let it control or destroy us.

the fact we are worried about it shows that we won’t, because we don’t want to be, because we are aware.

“I love you with all the broken, blood-stained pieces of me,”

Never underestimate a woman, because those seen as weak have a lot less to lose than those with everything.

I crave him. His brand of pain and love.

we can’t change the past, only how we act in the future,

it’s enough to find someone who will stand with you in the dark and not be afraid of blood and death. No, sometimes you don’t need a hero…you need a criminal, a villain.

fuck her, like the dirty little girl she is.

I learned it’s okay to love yourself. Even the darkest parts of you. No matter the shape, size, or weirdness you came with. Embrace your scars and never be ashamed to be who you are, because there is only one of you.

Like that life is not guaranteed, it’s made up of thousands of tiny moments that span a lifetime. Choices, actions, each and every one leads us down different paths.

To love so deeply it could fill an ocean, to not let fear stop you from being who you want to be.

Because if you don’t, if you let fear win, regret will eat you up and it will be all you have at the end.