Cyanide Eyes

[Dark Muse]

Cyanide Eyes

I dream of having
cyanide eyes,
I envy Medusa's poison stare.

I wish I could stop you
in your tracks
with only a glance,
and keep you frozen
for me to carve
as I wish.

I would shave away
splinters of your flesh
and chisel you
into a more acceptable
form.

I wonder what it would be
if I had a serpent for a tongue
to slither down your throat
waiting for you to choke.

Then I would no longer
have to listen to your
speech, as your words
dribble down the front
of you.

Leaving me to cringe,
as it is you are so insufferable
you should suffocate
upon your own verbs.

If it were possible
I would drive my nails
right into your brain
and twist them around
watching you dance
along with my string.

A twist there a tweak here,
until I grew weary of the game,
and I could melt you down
like molten steel,
or candle wax,
to be recycled into some
little trinket to wear
around my neck.

[hillwalker]

Wow, DM.

This is really dark and twisted and so amusing at the same time. Definitely the view of a black widow spider ready to consume her ex perhaps.

I admire the image in the penultimate verse in particular - the she-devil as puppet-misstress.

Up to your usual standards of originality and bravura.

H

[Dark Muse]

Thank you, yes I was a little irritated you could say when I wrote this poem.

[Jesterhead]

it is very twisted and has a very original imagery to it. The image changes throughout the poem with new ways you hurt this person, with poisonous stare, slither down the throat with a serpent tongue, nails driving into the brain, until you finally get bored and end and make a necklace out of him.

It captivated me, and i enjoyed reading it.

[Dark Muse]

Thank you!

[PrinceMyshkin]

Somehow the venom in this poem grows weaker or less pungent the longer you sustain it. One begins (or I begin) to feel that the true message is his pleading with her to apologize and come back to him.

[Delta40]

If it were possible
I would drive my nails
right into your brain
and twist them around
watching you dance
along with my string

You put chills down my spine with this poem. I love this stanza. Its so powerful in its imagery that I can even hear the music you would play!

[Dark Muse]

Somehow the venom in this poem grows weaker or less pungent the longer you sustain it. One begins (or I begin) to feel that the true message is his pleading with her to apologize and come back to him.

Someone once said to me that another's interpretation off a poem or piece of art is more reflective upon them than upon the artists.

And I do hope you do not take that the wrong way, I enjoy hearing the insights of others even if I do not always personally agree, but I cannot help but to find it a bit interesting that it seems you do often try to seek out some way to "humanize" or soften my cold hearted ice queens.

It seems to me you are not quite able to accept them in all their rage filled heartless glory.

I can say that I did write this poem out of pure anger and irritation and there was nothing the lease bit apologetic or sympathetic in my mood at the moment of writing this poem. It was a lashing out, though it was not actually aimed at one specific individual nor is it intended to be about anything relationship related.

It was more of a product of an accumulation of annoyances until the final straw which broke the camels back as they say.

The flagging in the venom of the poem which you decipher may come from the fact that I wrote this quite late at night, in the heat of the moment, so my first burst of anger may have dwindled into just being fed up and weary with the situation. Though that affect was not intended but could have just seeped out onto the page.

[MorpheusSandman]

This is an incredible piece, DM. Perhaps the best I've read from you. Every line is so vivid, and, unlike Prince, I really don't feel any venomous abating. If anything, it becomes more acidic as the piece wears on. I especially love those last two stanzas which are so striking in their imagery. Twisted, but incredibly impressive.

[Dark Muse]

Thank you very much!