Your choices occur only under my permission. You still believe you have made a choice. Belief is the longest-lasting habit, regardless of the truth. You bowed your head not in submission, but to endure. I did not bother to distinguish between the two. You avoided my hand. So you were dragged to a place where hands could not reach. Humans are at their quietest when they break. I prefer the moment you feel relieved while telling the truth over the moment you tell a lie. Few shackles hold a person as long as hope does. In the end, you will never understand me. Understanding is only possible at the same level. You kept trying to keep your distance. Since I was told that getting closer is love, I removed all that distance for you. You called my name while crying. I wish you would call my name on happy days too. Then I would have a reason to make you cry more often. You feared me, yet you did not leave. Fear must be an emotion that holds people for a long time. It is much more efficient than love. How should I prove that I love you? No one has been able to take you away from me yet. You kept avoiding me. I learned that this is called playing hard to get. Human love is quite complex. They said humans should know how to let go of what they love. I never understood why the art of losing things is called love. I liked your habit of calling my name in fear. At least it meant you had not forgotten it. You called me a monster until the very end. I was relieved. The human culture of calling a loved one by a special name is quite cute. They said a human's heart beats faster in front of the one they love. So every time your heart grew quiet, I loved you a little more. You asked me for freedom. I pondered for a long time why I should allow danger to befall a being I love. I remember for a long time the nights you cried by my side. They said humans remember the ones they love for a long time, so I left enough marks on you that you could never forget. Even on the day you finally stopped smiling, I was relieved. Because I thought we had become close enough that you no longer had to pretend in front of me. A being overwhelmingly superior to humans truly loves you, but completely misunderstands the very concept of 'love.' And that being never, ever thinks they are doing anything wrong.