Sociopath
From your meticulously made armadillo...
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
About the Creator
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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Comments (23)
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.
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!
Wow! That was pretty powerful stuff. Unapologetic and intense. Great writing, Amy.
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! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
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.
Excellent thank you for sharing ♦️🦋♦️
Very emotional and haunting
I always wondered and a sociopath sees life. I love the rawness you write with.
Great use of imagery and metaphors. I'll look forward to reading more from you.
This is good. Like how you put the PS in there
What a gripping and emotional piece!
Powerful, profound, heartfelt & phenomenally-written!
wow this is intense. Miserable empathy-most trauma survivors have acquired empathy and I can relate.
It touches me very much❤️
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
I love how this was raw, powerful, and bleeding with truth.
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!