What Do You Want?

what do you want?

you ask the girl with pink hair and a torn coat, and she says “closure.”

you ask the boy with a shaven head and two toned eyes, and he says “companionship.”

you ask the fox with white-streaked hair, and he says “acceptance.”

you ask the king with blank eyes and a shining crown, and they say “to help.”

you ask the winged boy with a scar over his eye and a beanie, and he says “freedom.”

you ask the sheep wearing a pirate’s coat, and she says “peace.”

you ask the warden with green hair, and he says “safety.”

you ask the demon wearing a bleached coat, and he says “love.”

you ask the pig wearing a royal’s garb, and he says “equality.”

you ask the short boy with antennae and bee wings, and he says “security.”

you ask the man with torn wings in a green cape, and he says “unity.”

you ask the boy with messy hair and a red shirt, and he says “rest.”

you ask the hybrid boy wearing a suit slightly too small, and he says “a home.”

what do you want?

you ask the faceless man in the prison of his own design.

he laughs at you.

“control.”