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Sociopath

From your meticulously made armadillo...

By AmynotAdamsPublished 7 months ago 2 min read
Top Story - June 2025
Sociopath
Photo by Dasha Yukhymyuk on Unsplash

Remember when we watched the titanic

i looked in your eyes, saw you were a body full of pain

you asked if i was okay

"fine, I'm fine.. I'm a sociopath anyway."

feel nothing, an act, a facade its all staged

Nails digging into flesh

fighting tears so much it burns the back of my throat

mouth lingering of cheap liquor

I'm a cold heartless sociopath

~ THEY SAID

I'm your strength your monster burying aching hurt

a hero when you least expect

a tyrant heathen less then blessed

used to have a halo, all you ever saw were horns

well the devil in me cried

when your heart was full of thorns

I heard you cry

when he beat you

saw the bruises on your eyes

blood building up in clots

begged you to cut those ties

i always thought you were beautiful, even if you were damned

~his words cut deep calculated as if it were planned

maybe when you call me evil

you saw my fathers face

traced the bitterness in my words, as if a strain of DNA

a female version of his lingering lies, and cruelty

poison he didn't get to spew

unfortunate casualty

kiss of judas? curly haired plague

IM A SOCIOPATH

i armor my heart guarded laced with superiority

untouched

wear a veil with spikes

and plates of stillness tough as truth

like an armadillo

~with pride

skinned in steel

my body cold to the touch

pierce your skin when you try to hold me

with the daggers i use for victims when i call to my command

you forced away the painful trinkets hoping to replace with love

ripping from the inside stitches come undone

sometimes i cant hide the venom in my heart

An acid spitting toad

fire in my blood

IM NOT A SOCIOPATH!!!!!

so please don't call me one

you pushed me into a part

to hide beauty and pain from my pulsating heart

now all i bleed is black

ugly mold and plaque

"what's that in the closet?"

just another heart shaped box..

{rip Kurt Cobain, you beautiful human}

i did it, i ripped it out i had to

fulfill my prophecy to be more then carefully crafted oddity

rarity

miserable empathy

cut it out with a pumpkin carver

sculpted like a sinister penalty

~years later the perfect crime

bitter truth like a pill swallowed dry

a look into the unknown

unfiltered lines

a weed in time

time in a bottle captive, and an escaping light destined

a curse fleeting entangled in tumbleweeds

empty ruins

planting one more seed

on baron land ground deep

PS: maybe I'm insane but I'm no a sociopath

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AmynotAdams

~Young Storyteller and poet with a curious mind and love for the little things. i write about everything from late night thoughts and life's messy relatable moments to unexpected insights and the strange beauty it is to be human ~

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  • Kelli Sheckler-Amsden3 months ago

    Amy, this was incredibly powerful and freeing! I am so glad I was able to read this

  • Wow, what a powerful punch in each line… the metaphorical syntax worked like lyrics. Incredible.

  • Elizabeth Petit6 months ago

    Amy, you definitely have a way with words! “a tyrant heathen less then blessed” is one of my favorite lines. Congratulations on your Top Story!

  • Lamar Wiggins7 months ago

    Wow! That was pretty powerful stuff. Unapologetic and intense. Great writing, Amy.

  • Monc7 months ago

    I wanna read each and every line again and again. This is the first piece that I’ve read from you and it was awesome!

  • Very well written, congrats 👏

  • Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊

  • R. B. Booth7 months ago

    Holy Cow. This was a train-wreck gut-punch. ‘The devil inside me cried’ hooked me. Your lines were unflinching and painful—like a thousand years of lives had been choked into them. It was suffocating at times. The worst part was knowing these words were lived in and not some abstract, poetic muse. A well written, unyielding truth written with a black eye and bloody lip ready for its next verse.

  • Marie381Uk 7 months ago

    Excellent thank you for sharing ♦️🦋♦️

  • Amy7 months ago

    Very emotional and haunting

  • Imola Tóth7 months ago

    I always wondered and a sociopath sees life. I love the rawness you write with.

  • Julie Lacksonen7 months ago

    Great use of imagery and metaphors. I'll look forward to reading more from you.

  • Mother Combs7 months ago

    This is good. Like how you put the PS in there

  • Jasmine Aguilar7 months ago

    What a gripping and emotional piece!

  • Tiffany Gordon7 months ago

    Powerful, profound, heartfelt & phenomenally-written!

  • Sid Aaron Hirji7 months ago

    wow this is intense. Miserable empathy-most trauma survivors have acquired empathy and I can relate.

  • It touches me very much❤️

  • Euan Brennan7 months ago

    This is emotional, powerful, and well constructed, Amy! Very well done 💖 No critique to give when I love your poem so much, haha.

  • Very intense. Very descriptive. I really like it

  • So excellent analogies here, very intense

  • Sandy Gillman7 months ago

    I love how this was raw, powerful, and bleeding with truth.

  • angela hepworth7 months ago

    This was so raw and visceral, my goodness! Your word choice and emotion throughout was just phenomenal, Amy!

  • Gosh this hit me so hard. Miserable empathy stood out most to me because sometimes, it takes a toll on me being an empath. Loved your poem!

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