Insanity

[Consumer]

I wonder
truly
how many understand
just how insane I am.

The water-brother?
The slave?
The friend?
The ex-lover?

The issue is that I find
mirroring souls
and to truly see me
they will touch those places in their own minds.

So I am left with this question
to show them just what I am
and risk
shattering their own self-image.

One of the few, cold, comforts
in this process
is that a true mirror reflects
light, not dark.

-SB

 

[Consumer]

There are emotions I do not want
do not know how to handle
and besides
the focus of them is hardly worthy of the energy.

Perversion is not taboo
Fantasy and unusual practices are blase
compared to the damage
of the true, forbidden, heat of hate

Like a killing or a rape
some things cannot be un-done
wrecked lives
Is it vengeance or justice that fuels it?

That is what is behind the skull's grimace
that "look" in the eyes
That pitch to the voice that will tell the observant
"This man has snapped".