The Great Knife

So I recently started playing Silent Hill, and now have a slightly unhealthy obsession with all the grusome creatures within that town. Here's a poem about The Great Knife.

A blade rapes mortal flesh; encased in filth, and

Blood weeps through the stitches.

Mutilate the weak with violent desire and

lust for killing; you hold the

Fate of sanity in your bloodied fists.

 

Town was defiled; left to decay

Beneath the mists, obscuring minor

Panic attacks; but what's a bit of brutallity

Between us freaks?

 

Distorted beauty is the kind I love

And loathe; your elusive weapon is my

Yearning; yearning for death and deep, dark

Graves for eyes.

 

I want to flay the flesh from your warped persona

With the Great Knife you once held high

Author's Note

Silent Hill influenced.

Reviews

[L'Éphoectique]

Silent Hill is such an amazing source of inspiration - it has this elegantly terrifying feek that I think you handled very well. The vocabulary is wonderfully rich - not limited but far beyond the regular ''blood, flesh, heart'' trio. Very rythmic and catchy ♥

[Lewis Davis-Norman]

Structure, language and form are on point in this one. This is one of the most emotionally intense and raw writes that I have ever read on here. Utterly brilliant.

[KatDarkness]

Thank you very much for your praise :)

[ValBonScallon]

Really well structured piece here. Kinda reminds me of a white collar couple with a husband who has a penchant for sadism that is not totally shared by the wife, but she tries in vain to gain some pleasure from her husband's pronounced need to subjugate her. And her ultimate drive is to strip that respectable persona from him to show the beast within... Am I far off here? Just curious.

[KatDarkness]

Thanks so much for the review :)
The poem kind of has a double meaning. The inspiration was the Pyramid Head from the Silent Hill Videogames, who possesses a large swordlike knife (The Great Knife), a powerful weapon that can be won by defeating him (one of the most desirable weapons, possessed by the deadliest creature) so I wrote the poem about wanting to defeat him.
The other meaning for the poem was almost exactly like you described, a need to derive pleasure from somebody else's domination :)