Monsters

POETRY

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For she knows that she is his creation, a monster herself.

So she tries to fit in and become somebody else.

The forced noise of happiness births from her stapled lips.

She ravages and mauls at her skin, not a sound of pain as she begins to rip.

Even with her mask in place, she does not belong here, even when in disguise.

They can see straight through to her soul through her transparent eyes.

There they source innocence and naivety, hope, and ignorance.

And so, the man they call Narcissus, asks her to dance.

And so, begins the story all over again.

Into his arms she was beckoned in.

Hope raped by Narcissus birthed a gorgon conception.

Birthed a child who shook her head at love and any form of affection.

Enya Grey grew up in a small northern town famous for its trains and railways. She started writing when she was very young, but her poetry metamorphosed into its mature guise in 2021. Monsters is Enya’s first published poetry anthology.

In between university years, Enya was the chief editor of designer timepieces in her hometown. She was awarded a First-Class Honours Master of Arts at the University of Glasgow, and her dissertation achieved a score of 96/100 (anything over 90 was publishable). It was not your average dissertation as she traced the history of madness through the works (paintings and engravings) of three different artists from the 1500s to the 1800s. Enya taught creative writing while being a tutor at university and ran it as a lunchtime club for Sixth-Formers and staff while completing her teacher training. She has had her poetry published twice before but within collective books of many other authors and authoresses.

Enya’s first sole collection of poems will echo loss and will unquestionably break the reader’s heart. It will refract their own mourning whilst opening their eyes to the despair of a smiling girl. Though this anthology animates the cerebral monsters of the young authoress, it will perhaps give the reader the armour and weaponry to fight their own; her voice reminding us that we are never alone in our battles.