Perhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside of me waiting to strike - Nikita Gill

Ask Hades when he let go of his brothers. Even in the Underworld, the air suddenly honeyed, made his reign feel so much kinder, better than it ever was before.

You become the thing that hurts you until it can hurt you no more.

Remember what you must do
when they undervalue you,
when they think
your softness is your weakness,
when they treat your kindness
like it is their advantage.

You awaken
every dragon,
every wolf,
every monster
that sleeps inside of you
and you remind them
what hell looks like
when it wears the skin
of a gentle human.