Dining with Warriors: Banishing the Energy Vampires

It's so heavy and hard to breathe. I'm losing hope, losing life. My spirit is out of my body—an empty, strong shell left behind. So many people want me, but I don't want them. They're all so far away, with honeyed lips calling me, offering their bodies. But we all know it's a trap— They suck the energy out of you with their lying mouths. They say they have hard lives, Yet travel daily, wine and dine themselves, While I sit here under the sun, trying to carve a new path for myself. Oh life... They say you need to be scared of ghosts, But the real ghosts and monsters are humans. Backstabbing, lying little shits— Smiling in front of you, but bitching about you behind your back. We wonder why we never upgrade ourselves. How do we, when everyone around us is jealous of what we have, Yet no one talks about how hard it was to get there? Everyone leaves the moment you have nothing. Everyone becomes your best friend when you have eve...