How Villains are Made

Flaming swords, 

Blazingly cold deserts

Temptation creeping in from

Both the bleeding tip of my blade and

Shifting speckles of sand.

To stretch out my betrayal of hope

Into the universe,

to let it know there is no tangible

Forgiveness. Not from us.

My knife chips and melts,

Leading forward the rest of us

who have done nothing wrong,

But find ourselves wronged,

and incentivized to wrong it forward.

Author's Note

Do I move toward or away from corrupted moral agency?

Reviews

[Papaya]

Every villain has an origin story and it's often some wrong doing against them that leads to their villainous behaviour. The movie of The Joker with Joaquin Phoenix is a great example of how society fails certain people rather than supporting rehabilitation. Thought provoking write.