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PROFILE CASE warning to those sensitive in heart
His ego sliced and diced since childhood,
from traumas of incestuous rape,
he now survives a disassociated mind;
voices call him from subconscience tapes.
From reel to reel, fast forward and back,
the confusion sets him to play,
an actor in part, he starts to embark
through neighborhoods loaded with prey.
He'll wait for weeks. Painful ecstasy peaks,
till he finds that familiar release;
His Uncle he is now, locked in his mind...
a youth will be sought out to please.
Motives are plain, psychological pain
now drive him to rerun the films,
directing with trikery and kind words of deceit,
his morbid intentions to fill.
An innocent victim, as he once was,
now squirms in silenced despair,
the Director is pleased, perversive release...
as he stands up and combs back his hair.
With no conscience intact,
its' been walled off in back
beyond the furthest recess of mind,
he'll be shocked when he hears,
"A child disappeared!"...
with the search team he'll join in to find.
This isn't his first time,
nor be his last,
for these traits now imprinted within...
His psychopathic mind, begins reeling to find
a way to cover his sins.
His daily perception remains clear,
when not triggered by the fear
of the voices he hears from the past.
They set him in motion;
no emotion,
no remortion...
He's been robbed in a life,
full of suffering and strife,...
now mirrors it on innocent lives.
This was written with such feeling that I know you had to have put yourself into the body of your subject.
You have done a very good job of pointing out the "Why" here. Unfortunately, how we treat our children, and even other people, in our lifetime, can come back to haunt not only ourselves, but humanity itself.
I find myself wishing that someone had only cared for this soul. Perhaps if somewhere in his lifetime if one person had truly cared enough to care, the voices that haunt him would have been silenced before they gained controle.
I bet that you got a very good mark on your paper if it was anything as this has been to the reader.
Great job Val!
Love,
Lesa
It still amazes me how a well written poem can sum up a long story or book. And you have done this extremely well here in this piece.
This was sooooo sad. But it happens everyday unfortunatly. People who came from abuse usually turn out abusive. How does this chain be broken. The poem itself was outstanding. You never cease to amaze me.
Indeed a tragic end to such people...for what they had done were merely spawns of what was done UPON them before... U express the guilt and twisted side of man very well Val...particularly the first and second stanza...Deeply inspired u must have been. If u havent , do read my Her Backview and Stalking. two of my dark poems dealing with psychotic people. Thanxs...
All true!!! and well said!!! It is so sad, isn't it... Amy
Gentle is the night♥
Very tragic but true. This poem makes me cry. I just finished reading Anatomy of Motive and the Mindhunter written by a top profiler for the FBI and sadly yes, the perpetrators of crimes aginst children were once children themselves and no one could save them from their fate. I think we all need to open our eyes and ears more and not turn our heads, if we think A child is being mistreated then report it without hesitation. This piece has really moved me.