Villain
VILLAIN
V-I-L-L-A-I-N
What happens when you are the villain?
Raised up to believe in the black and the white
When all there really is
Is day and night
And the people living in between.
Us.
They act as though we want our worst selves to be seen
What if I want to be in the background?
Villain.
Let me spell it out for you.
V-I-L-L-A-I-N
Evil; The only dictionary definition
Letter by letter we are loaded into a worded prison
V is for vile
We are like vomit splattered on old tile
We are the result of bad decisions
We ARE the bad decisions
We are like drugs, and alcohol, and twisted visions
I is for Impudent
We don’t follow the rules
Don't like to be treated like the tools
That THEY thought we were.
We are like letters in numbers
Unwanted and unappreciated
Just because we've deviated
From the "norm".
L is for Lowlife
We sink to our knees
Before each prince and princess
Their royal schemes
Slamming us down
Until we are level with the Earth
Level with the dirt and the worms unearthed
And the DISGUSTING thing stuck on the bottom of their shoes
Did you think we chose to be born to lose?
L is for Loved less,
NOT Love - less.
We are not made of stone
But flesh and bone
Heart and blood
The sounds Thud thud and crack
We are just the ones who were never loved back
We cried until the tear wells inside dried up
Our hearts shrivelled up
And now here we stand
Empty.
Why are we. So. Empty?
A is for Anger.
That's right. We are angry.
Angry at the ones who kicked us when we were down
Who greeted us with a frown
The ones who were surprised when we growled back
When we said
"Watch out"
"We bite"
They looked at us like we didn’t have
The RIGHT to be angry.
What happened to our dreams?
To our families?
To our Happy Endings?
It's not our fault the world decided
That we didn’t get to be happy
I is for irredeemable.
We have become irretrievable
We’ve sunk so far we can’t crawl back
This is the way we were taught to act
We don’t know any better
We don’t know how to be better
We aren’t all so clever
We don’t want to be like this anymore.
We never wanted to be like this.
N is for nightmare
We are our worst fear come to life
From victims to victimizers
Terrorised to terrorizers
They should be glad.
They’ll never dream a dream as bad
As what we see in the mirror
It couldn’t be clearer
How wicked we’ve become
We won’t try to run when they come
After all, who would they hurt
By putting us in the dirt?
Didn’t you know that
No one mourns the wicked?
Villain.
The real definition
We are the bullied who became the bullies
The girls whose princes broke their hearts
The boys whose hopes were dashed on rocks.
We are the fallen.
The Bad Endings.
Do you understand the message I’m sending?
If you want a Happy Ending
You need to stop pretending
That you couldn’t be just like us one day.
And this is where our story ends,
When I finally put down my paper and pen.
I can only hope someone will read this
And step in
When they see someone rotting into a villain.