The Sociopathic Exposition

Clustered graves infatuate the apathetic me,

prettied by rhapsodies of blushing daffodils

intended to replace the gravestones

bearing names of murdered children.

I tended to carefully each one,

adopted from various courtships

assuming love,

but having none of,

while I sighed over

yet another

wilting possibility.

Malice flares in jealous eyes

while I make love to a mistress

bearing children from the cerebellum;

they declare I shall feel remorse

as I stand over cemeteries

of victims I murdered myself,

but,

they

were

not

mine.

For I spoke of the apathy

to the mistress,

(might I say stars twinkled

in her sunlit irises)

to which she halved

her breasts,

shattered the ribcage,

and revealed

silenced voices as well.

Author's Note

Photo courtesy of Mundokk of Deviant Art.

Reviews

[Rhea752]

Creepy and I am really glad I read this in the daytime. I loved it!!! :P

[Tai Ryens]

Aha!

[Pax]

darkly written piece of emotion that hide inside the mind of a killer ~ quite chilling and sinister so i say but i enjoyed it and the things is we never know our imagination is link to a real one ~ and that's more creepy... :D

Brilliant Tai my friend...
in a mind of a killer you had done it well!

[Tai Ryens]

Thank you.~

[Ryan]

brilliant. dark. a bit of a creepy ending though. I like it. :)

[Tai Ryens]

Thank you.

[Extant]

Incredibly creepy and sinister this one, Tai. (Maybe even too much for myself . . . )
I am hung up on the idea of a woman wanting children, but unable to have children, forces her lover to go out and kill other people's children, so that they may know her pain. And though her lover feels remorse and knows that it is wrong he continues to do so because he loves her, is seduced by her. . . The end to me, is retelling when her lover confronts her about his remorse and she reveals her own in death.
From what I have taken from this, it makes me wonder what people really do for love?

[Tai Ryens]

Love is a bedazzling thing, despite its many dark sides. I find the criminal ones, although they make me queasy, quite attractive as well as a spontaneous show of affection. Your comment entices me more so, as I hadn't had that interpretation during the period I attempted to decipher it myself.
Your comments amuse me always, thank you for reading.

[Extant]

You're welcome as always, Tai. It was entertaining to go through this and read the story behind the verses.

[demureminds]

The last stanza/paragraph is brilliantly written. Definitely some type of imagery embedded into it. I really did like the whole piece though. The sociopath you write about seems lonely to me in a numb sort of way and the mistress seems to be like a switch that momentarily takes away his inability to portray emotions. If this is completely wrong, sorry haha. But great piece overall!

[Tai Ryens]

Lovely interpretation.~
I myself know not the true nature of this piece, but I do know emotions had their play in it. Thank you for reading.

[Frieda P]

It was all blood and guts after 'prettied by rhapsodies of blushing daffodils' a killer line by the way....I read this to be about motivation i.e. perhaps the muse and the aloofness therein. I see no detachment of indifference in this work, it's brilliant, even if I'm way off base.

[Tai Ryens]

Poetry is whatever you make it to be. Even if I hadn't the same thought, `beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.`
Thank you, it means a lot.

[Frieda P]

I so agree, once I put it out there, you can twist it anyway you want to suit you, much enjoyed this, upon rereading, it could have so many different interpretations, I love that about poetry...kudos.