Pieces

He stared at his reflection in the mirror. Was this what other people saw? He scrutinized the face staring back at him. The curves of the nose, flaring in frustration. The eyes sunken and bloodshot, the dark circles underneath emphasizing the lost hours of sleep. The eyes were that of a madman. Did people see the monster inside? Momentarily, he fought for control; the monster wanted to burn this world to the ground. Regaining control, he knew that one day he wouldn't, and god help us all then.
Back to the stranger that presented itself to him as his reflection, he couldn't help but realize that he looked like a criminal. Was that the reason that people turned from him in fright? He hated the looks he got, he wasn't a bad person. Just haunted.
He looked down at his hands in the sink, resting on the edge. They were the hands of an old man. Wrinkled and broken, the knuckles swollen and bruised. Too many years doing hard labor will destroy a man. It only took his hands.
Eyes losing focus, he thought about his life. The choices he had made, the people lost. Those gone but never forgotten, he wished he could forget. Ghosts haunted him, memories tormenting. Having found heaven, he found himself wandering alone in hell. He choked back a sob. He wasn't going to think about her, he missed her so much. But she didn't want to be with him, there was something wrong with him, something diseased. He knew it, they all knew it. That's why no one wanted to be with him. He was diseased.
He looked back up at the face in the mirror, distorted now into a million reflections. The glass was shattered, like his soul. He loved only to be cast aside. He gave his all only to be found lacking.
He looked down at his hand in the sink. The blood pouring from the gash in his hand was crimson red against the white porcelain. Diseased. You could see it in the blood, he could feel it on his bones. He looked back at the monster in the mirror. He was the monster, and everyone saw it.
Blood pouring from his wound, he knew there was no hiding it anymore.