PREDATORS

The are people in this world that are human beings only because they have the DNA of a human being. Perhaps one day they were like the rest of us, but in the road, something happened and they lost the essence of their soul. Maybe they were once dreadfully mistreated or they had to learn to survive using others, but unfortunately for those who happen to cross their ways, they have nothing inside themselves that can resemble a soul.

They would come and would recognize in you the best qualities you can have, they would take you to your peak, and with them, you would excel in everything, you would be your best and would give your best, and would want your best, and would lose your best. And then you would be your worst

With the sweetest voice and words they will tell you what you have been waiting to hear but which you were warned not to listen. And they will do it so perfectly you wouldn't even notice how well and how much you are being used. For people like them one, two , three, fifty times have never been enough; they become masters in the art of seducing and the number of people used for their own pleasure or advantage is never important enough to be even remembered

They would take away from you your strength and would disrespect you constantly and you would allow it so in love you would fall. They, right beside you, would show their learned strategies with others having you totally sank into oblivion as if you were nothing; and you -besides feeling that the world is coming to an end -would observe their actions confused and hurt and wanting so hard to find an explanation, for that which they adored and admired once, is not even interesting but boring and difficult and what you had to give, has no value compared to the shining of the new

In the road, you would find that the tiredness you feel and the lack of sleep you would be having, have nothing to do with your age, for you can find them when you are 15 or 60 and the results would be the same.

Being close to them would force you to realize not soon enough that you are really worn out as you would never be again in life and no matter what you do, you would feel wasted even if others try to get you back on your feet.

They will toy with you and for too long you wont be able to realize it -for no human being in your past would have ever been so low, so cunning, so selfish and what would be clear to everybody would be for you impossible to understand. Yet, one day, you will come to realize that there's a reason for their forgetfulness and that is that they couldn't care less about you for you are nothing save something to remember when bored. And it will be until this moment that you will be able to collect yourself, rise up, and begin to walk away the long walk you would need to walk to be free again

But for a long time for you, what you were before or the promises that you would still promise, wont mean a thing.

They might take you to believe in fairy tales and until just before your own death, you would keep on looking for them to fulfill which ever promises they have promised you because you really believed, and you might waste your precious time and self wanting to have at least the chance to one day stand tall at their grave to spit at it, and the wonderful things you have inside would be diminished by such hatred and such pain although knowing deep inside that despise that wrath you would always know that if that were the case, pain would bend you to your knees to cry your soul out for that fiercely felt love that never found the room in which to dwell

And yet, no ephemeral joy felt there nor any grasp of memory would ever compensate the agony in which you would live and the never ending sense of loss and fear in which you would find yourself in after loving them as no little happiness would ever be worth of losing your inner peace

They would take you to the top and with a masterstroke would put you down taking from you what makes you unique and strong. The same beauty in you that someday pleased them, would be ignored, sometimes despised and scorned, and much better for them if possible, crushed without your being able to do anything to stop it

They would steal from you your inner peace and nothing, nothing they could give you would ever replace what they would steal because what you would really lose is the innocense you had towards mankind and that would never be back

And they, they would prey on you waiting until they find which your weaknesses are, so that the would strike inmediately with no signs of mercy for their only goal is to use you and take from you whatever you have to give. You see, they never really learned the meaning of give, the meaning of trust, the meaning of respect but only the satisfaction of taking, of using, and of disposing; and naturally, what they didn't learned before, wont be learned with you. How come? you would be just another one

They would indeed learn to say what you want and need to hear but they would never meant it and they would not want to hear what you have to say or what you need to say.

And maybe one day they would themselves fall for someone and they would give a little, care a little, love a little and they might realize how good it is to be true, but old habits are hard to end and that evil that makes them what they are, would come back and take over again in a blink of an eye

And when you are finally, totally spent and the game is over, they would not even move a finger to get you back because they are too busy looking for new adventures or too tired to make any effort out of consideration of your need to close that chapter


Little one that is still there in their path, if ever one of them crosses yours, look at him- peacefully- he might have a precious smile, a sweet voice, and gleaming eyes, and even if it seems right, smile to him and then walk away as fast as possible , because if you stay a little longer than what a brief sight takes, he would take away your dignity and leave you hurt for evermore.