Kill?

In a manner of speaking, yes.

Your Beast is a part of you,
an intimate part that has been with you for a long, long time.
It has been with you during some of
the best moments of your life, and some of the worst,
always as a friend, to celebrate the good times,
to relieve the humdrum times,
to calm you and soothe you during the bad times,
and to enrich the simple pleasures of life.

It brings out the best in you,
or so it seems at times.
It is a companion for lonely times,
and a coach for social times,
a doctor who knows what's best for you,
and a pal who really cares for you.

It talks in "you" and "we,"
just like any other friend,
and it always has the perfect solution
for any problem you ever have.

How could you turn on your old friend,
betray it when it has been so faithful to you?
How could you kill such an innocent thing,
that only means to help?

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