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Pouya 5d
You choose silence,
When you can express,
But every minute,
You can put off the talk,
You can engage in,
That's a kind of freedom.
The weighted blanket,
I wasn't meant to carry,
layer after layer,
of burned threads,
leaving stains where they are,
for it wasn't made for my bed.
I wrote this poem about burdens, traumas, life events, that occur in each of our lives that weren't ours, but somehow or for some reason, fell on us to be responsible for or to take on its identity.
Damocles Apr 11
Juke box playing
Triggering memory
There’s rain falling sideways
Reminds me of misery.

Another drink of the green
Chase the fairy, in a land of make-believe
Anywhere I can roam,  a place that I can go
Escape the tendrils of reality.

Bruised lips kiss the bottle --
Hoping it can save the pain,
Bible recitals, hoping verses can absolve again
There’s a black box full of secrets
Crashing into the greenery, a lost plane,

“Help me,” scribbled down on a napkin,
A careless sigh from the bar-keep, handing me an aspirin
Demons lean in whisperin’,
Won’t listen, no, can’t let them in.

Dance floor neon -
Calling like a moth to flame,
I’ll let it all loose, let my mind reframe.
But the blood on my hands doesn’t wash
I see her within the stains.

“What did I do? How do I stop?”
I ask in vain
Juke box playing,
Triggering a memory.
Rain falling sideways--
Reminds me of her misery.
One of the things I took up as a hobby was criminal psychology, i like true crime and all of that stuff, so this was a piece that was in my journal that started out with me trying to get in the mind of a remorseful killer, pure fantasy, born out of my love for criminal psych and true-crime
Archer Apr 7
Thereunto Sky Filled with Scars
O’er our beheld Ocean of Teeth
Seldomly Throwing Up Clouds and Stars
In sets of three for three sets of Crying Trees
Up and upon each Screaming Mountainside
Till moons pass half past a Quarter to Live
Or they shan’t view their Island in my Eye
Instead betwixt a Desert and Crude Sieve
Alas, nary a River Through our Sun
Nor a Volcano up the Arctic
Dost commit to Minds Overrun
Or coups for Governments Oligarchic
The Unprincipled Psychopath
Highly narcissistic and delights in wrecking vengeance through humiliation
They love to exploit and abuse other people, gives them a sense of elation
And they genuinely enjoy the anguish they create
Full of green envy and spoiled hate
they are no longer useful and then demolished and discarded with no guilt
The motto, “Do unto others before they do unto you.” Is what their whole world is built

The Disingenuous Psychopath
The disingenuous psychopath enjoys popularity and a great social façade
Able to charm those around them initially but eventually people see the fraud
Long-term intimate relationships are next to impossible due to their unreliability
Seething with resentment, and a tendency to plot against others with no sense of nobility
View life as only one of us can win, and it’s going to be me, they don’t believe in teams
Rationalize all of their heinous behavior, and expect others to appreciate their cunning schemes

The Risk-Taking Psychopath
The rush they get when they take risks and fighting or dueling with a stranger
Thriving on a steady diet of dangerous & treacherous living, always like to be in danger
convinced that they are invincible, view others who will not take the same risks as weak & inept
Their lack of reliability and responsibility is central to their character & expect others to just accept
Lack any understanding or concern for how their dangerous actions affect those around them
All that matters is the thrill of the game that’s their lifes motto, where their thinking stems.

The Covetous Or Envious Psychopath
Envy and revenge are there central characteristic
They are self-indulgent and are extremely exhibitionistic
Often have little concern for the people they exploit and deceive
Immoral, cruel acts, taking what’s theirs in the first place is what they believe
May become crocked business people, to succeed they will do anything they see fit
Their true sense of pleasure comes from taking what they want rather than earning it

The Spineless Psychopath
Viewing themselves as the victims, defenceless and weak
will strike out first against others in a counter phobic effort is what they will seek
They project a false bravado and want desperately for others to see them as invincible
And their motto “not to be messed with.” A façade they believe is convincible
Drawn to militaristic groups that prey on the innocent enthusiastically
They bully and victimize to soothe their own fears of inadequacy.

The Paranoid Psychopath
Is suspicious of everything and everyone, usually there's no reason
May be potential dangerous if threat of exposure is imminent or feelings of treason
Often accuse others of wrong-doing, and will never accept responsibility
Their features frequently blend with those of the disorder paranoid personality disability
It doesn't matter whether they made the mess or not, someone else must take the blame
To underline these features is a ruthless desire to vindicate themselves is their main game

The Quiet Psychopath
Socially withdrawn, often *****, unkempt, odd thinking is observed
Occasionally insecure and irresolute, perhaps even faint hearted, cowardly & reserved
Psychopathic aggression, when present, represents a paradoxical response to felt dangers and fears
Intended to show others that their not anxious or weak, withholding & never showing any tears
These personalities will commit if not now then in future a violent act, hiding their hatefulness
Projecting hostile fantasies, they feel it is best to strike first, thereby to forestall their antagonists

The Charmer Or Soulmate Psychopath
Coming on strong, sweep us off our feet, says they have the same interests, wants to marry quickly
Appear helpful, comforting by their feigned 'idealization' of us, worming their way into your heart slickly
Is aware that you will be drawn closer by their relaxing aura and lack of inhibitions essentially
But it never lasts, their true colours show, Jekyll always turns into Hyde eventually
He will talk to a woman who is interested in poetry about poetry, doesn't care about it but will quote a poet
She will take interest in a man's work though she doesn't really care  but charm him with her interest & knows it

The Violent Psychopath
Tyrannical desires is their willingness to go out of the way to be unmerciful and inhumane
Calculating & cool, they are selective in their choice of victims, truly diabolically insane
They display a high level of abusiveness & intimidation, to show power as they attack
As identifying individuals who are likely to submit rather than to react back
These individuals derive deep satisfaction in creating suffering and in seeing its effect
Inflicting emotional, verbal & physical cruelty, they view you as a subject.

The Explosive Psychopath
They are ruled by the unpredictable and sudden emergence of hostility
These "adult tantrums," characterized by uncontrollable rage & emotional instability
Explosive behavior erupts precipitously, its intensive nature can be identified But not constrained
Thwarted or threatened, they respond in a volatile and hurtful way, making relationships strained
Abrupt change that has overtaken, saying unforgivable things & striking unforgettable blows
Outbursts to discharge pent-up feelings of humiliation, degradation, unable to self-compose

The ****** Psychopath
Display an impulsive hypersexuality and frequently expresses a polymorphic ****** range
*******, promiscuity, incestual tendencies, perversions & the forbiddingly strange
Takes a predatory approach towards their targets with a stalking behaviour they form
Their ****** aim will be to dominate, use, control & subjugate another person is how they perform
Their motto "I just take what's available." That’s their way of thinking when they torment
Targets are young & the elderly, both genders, they are often targeted for *** without consent.


The Liar Psychopath
Pathological liar, will lie for no reason at all, usually skilful but sometimes fails to remember the lie
Will agree to anything then turn around and do just the opposite, they don’t even know why
These psychopaths never lie because lying is not a relevant issue for them, completely in denial
Legal agreements and normal social protocol mean nothing to them, they would lie in a trial
What's convenient, what comes to their mind never figures out 'Is that now really true, or not'?
The idea or image of truth doesn't exist with them and can become violent if the lie is caught.
I researched a lot for this one lol
Pavel Rup Mar 28
Hormones in youth are ticking bombs—
and Freud’s just chuckling in his grave.
Love’s eyes still gleam like polished guns,
but necks? Oh necks won’t misbehave.

Eyes lock—a beauty storms the scene!
Neck, don’t you dare! (It dares. Of course.)
She floats like anarchist’s dream—
same then. Same now. Same deadly force.

Women’s sly smiles? Just primers set.
Men’s chests? Just trenches, soft and weak.
Love is a blaze! (Doubt? Just regret.)
Youth—dear friend—pray, don’t speak.

But age? A ceasefire, calm, profound.
Hormones now sleep—no more unrest.
Eyes see the truth (it’s bleak, I’ve found):
that beauty walks… still bombshell-dressed.

Ah! Pavlov’s mutts just drool and stare.
Neck—why still twist? The threat’s long gone!
Terror? Exes? Just hot air.
You look. They look. The script reads on.

Women—eternal partisan,
from Mars? From hell? Who even knows?
They’re strange. They’re sharp. They’ve got a plan.
Hormones? Asleep. War’s on freeze.

Ivan Pavlov, a Nobel Prize laureate, was a renowned Russian physiologist best known for his work on classical conditioning, famously demonstrated in his experiments with dogs.
bellamy Mar 20
I have spent months of my life, hour by hour, poured over studying psychology.

My test grades reflect skill. I search textbooks and case studies like my own personal bible.

I memorize vocabulary like a mantra, I cite diagnostic characteristics like poems.

I can’t find a chapter in my textbook on why I cannot sleep at night when the air smells the same way it did this time 6 years ago.

No vocabulary explains why me and my father haven’t been the same since I was a child, my teacher will never tell me why I haven’t fit into my body for years.

I will never write an essay using the scientific method to study why my body will never release what has happened to it.
it’s pretty late at night and I can’t sleep, so I wrote some. this and the next thing I post may be trash and I may delete them in the morning, but tonight they’ve breached the containment of my notes app
Then out the Void,
The Monster springs,
To serve his maker, Man.
The Subject, the Object, the Artificium. That's enough hintage. Also the title has nothing to do with marking sheep.
So from the Void
Doth Being spring?
To serve no maker,
But Man?
I was very unsure of what I should title this with, which is in my case a little strange for usually titles are in me so abundantly fathomed that they find no worthy thing to title upon;
but here I was so stumped that I chucked together eventually what may or may not be intelligible to intelliged life. Hint: the title is not (in of itself) about ends, un-ends, ledges or knowledge; though maybe if you should like, but I'd rather ye that may yet view understand by yourselves what you must, if that be your lotten, or the ontwwinth of your lotten with mine.

Let with you be my aught, and I hope with me yours.

Post scriptum: one word to consider, 'abnegation', which was otherwise to be the title of this poem, if not for the blatancy of it, and blatancy rubs off not very well on people...sometimes.

After-afterwrit: This poem was originally something else, which I think I shall enter elsewhere.
Gideon Mar 8
Righting our parents’ wrongs is very hard,
And fixing broken minds can be even harder.
Maybe we should try harder to fix our behavior.
Cause our behavior can harm more than it helps.
Our impact is always affected by our intent,
And we must always try to be kind.
RAMCOA stands for Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, and Organized Abuse. It is a psychiatric term to describe some varieties of severe manipulation and trauma.
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