The greatest comic book villains
weren't the anarchists,
the nihilists,
nor the manipulators

It were the romanticists.

Thanos snapped his fingers
and half of the universe's life disappeared.
Not to balance the scales like in the movies, no

in the comics, Thanos committed genocide
to court Death -- in the form of a woman

Mr. Freeze cryogenically froze his terminally ill wife, Nora.
Committing crimes to advance his research to treat her yet incurable disease

Dr. Doom built a machine that would project his astral body to hell.
Scarring his face in the process, in a futile attempt to rescue his mother

But I am no villain,
I do not have infinity stones
the manhandling effort
nor the cosmic intellect

though I have been defined
[nonchalant, cold, and anti-social]
by whose vocabulary lacks
to grasp what I am

Yet I do not mind,
it is human nature to simplify
what we cannot comprehend.

A theatrical free-will,
a Newtonian dissonance,
a deterministic philosophy;
the illusion of control.

But what I do fully grasp
is when fate comes between me
and you,
the sisters would know the definition
of arthritic hands.

God shall be challenged to create a stone he can't lift,

gouge my eyes out when I pull you from the depths of Tartarus,

make a Faustian bargain,

and sing unto the crossroads
until my fingers bleed plucking the strings.

I shall stand before the powers that be,
all in exchange for your soul.

But at the end of the day,
I am no romanticist, nor a villain,
not stoic, nor Machiavellian

I'm just a boy, standing in front of a girl...
like most villains, in the right circumstances,
left with no choice against something that they cannot control

But darling, if it were to come to that
I will make sure,
to conquer the world
with an iron fist on one hand
while clutching yours in the other.