The boy.  He is lost and haunted.
By what he doesn't know.  How can he?
He cannot see the demons that haunt him every single moment of every single day.
But we can.
They follow him like a shadow under the mid afternoon sun.
Follow him and scatter around when they feel others looking.
They remain in the corners in the darkness.  It's where they feel safe.
They whisper so only he can hear.  They whisper about loss and attack his fear.
What happened to the boy?  Why choose him? Does he even know?
He does know and at first was frightened.
However, they have been with him so long he feels that they are part of him.
He is they are they are him.
He succumbs to the evil and rots in the cell society has placed him in.
He sits and thinks and becomes angry at those who are innocent.
It must be their fault somehow.
All he did was live and tried.
All he did was want to be loved.