Black and blue
Are the colors of my soul's lining.
The width of indiscriminate days
Of unanswered prayers.
Increasingly familiar
Feelings hung around my neck,
So guilty and agile,
That I must stop and catch my breath.
Tears of one etheral,
Selection is the key...
And how I knew what she would taste of...
The tracery of her veins,
Not so very uncommon.
But thrilling just the same.
(I am not insane)
I am mastery incarnate,
Delicate with my blade.
Sounds are blurred
By the love within my touch.
Her eyes are no longer crying
Weight beneath me endless,
Blood scratched to the surface of my face.
And even though she's nameless
She served her purpose elegantly.
But the shadows are caving in again,
The soft, soprano voices
Of each in their sweet turn.
Suddenly too much room in here,
I can't be alone with this...
Slipping into the street
She will come to me
Again and Again and Again.
Author notes
Option #3...with most truly psychotic killers, death is only a by product of their need. Whatever that need may be. They make no cognitive connection between the killing and acting out of their own desires until after the act is over. When it is over they may recognize what they have done but do not link any emotion to it. They feel the same about this as they do about anything else...
I tired to capture it here. The need, the "love" which ends in death. "The soft, soprano voices" is a line that came to me. It could be a reference to the soul's of past victims, or of victims yet to be claimed.
I don't know...maybe I just have too much time on my hands or too vivid an imagination. Hope you enjoy it.
A contest entry
- Dark and Depressing #2 by XHollowXEyesX.
750 points, ended June 18, 2007, 73 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Comments
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wow thats awesome... fantastic piece from the mind of a killer... chillingly makes you relate...well done
cheers
jen
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wow this is an awesome write. Very beautifully writtn yet absolutely creepy. The flow of this poem is so natural and free, I love the great use of language that you used, it added so much imagery and pwer to the meaning and storyline that you are expressing.
excellent work
thanks for entering and goodlcuk -
woah this was a really great write..it was really graphic and it flowed really well..very vivid as well..i enjoyed reading this..keep writting your talented and good luck in the contest..
~Chrissy~ -
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Thank you very much for the comment. This was one of those pieces that just kind of pours out of you, you know what I mean? It just took its own shape on the page as I thought about it. Anyway, thanks again.
-Shae
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