So this is what it is then.
Empathy turned dark.
Quickly jumping.
Wary of all.
The tallest and thickest walls.

Highly aware.
Intuition to the max.
Sensitivity like never before.
Revealing the truths of everyone before they speak.

I see people for who they are,
regardless of their masks.
No one can fool me now.
I see their intentions before they open their mouths.
I see what they’re made of.

Pushing everyone away before they come closer.
Warning them, “you are not welcome”.
“Stay away, I don’t want you”.
“You don’t see me,
you are too small, too basic, too stupid”.
“You are uninvited”.

Nobody can enter.
Closed.
Hermetic.

Is this his pain, their pain, passed on to me?
Is this what they wanted?
Or is this who I was meant to become?
Was it already inside me, buried?
Did he, they, bring it out in me?
Or did they inflicted it upon me?

I wasn’t this way before.
But now I seem to be.