Portrait of John Doe

By Melancholic VIncent

I grind my teeth
In an expression of rage
And claw my hands
Over my head
It’s hurting again
My skull is closing on in

As my brain beats
Throbbing and thrombotic
Hardening to critical mass
Pumping my eyes with boiling blood

Instead of a heart
Gangrenous and hypothermic
Impaled by frozen icicles of love
Growing an ice field in an inhospitable land

Feeling kinda awkward today
Just like in the last ten years
Sucking my memory dry
Not a thing i can remember
Only this pain, only this wrath
Like memories that abruptly
Flash before my eyes
After a amnesia
After being high
At high speed
In the highway to hell
Not a moment, not even a eye blink
Without the tortures and the eyesores
Not a second, not even a synapses
Without the horrors and the suffering

My pale face crossed out from any painting
Every picture of me
Distorted, faded, vanished

The opaque mirror shattered in sharp shards
Every reflection of me
Broken, severed, smashed

Confusing thoughts, troubled feelings
Are confined inside a twisted mind
Jamming the reality
Messing with my personality
I can be everyone
I can be nobody
I can be John Doe
Knowing nothing about myself
My identity is kept in secret
In the depths of oblivion
Swear i heard my name elsewhere
Whispered by dark shadows
Fleeing away from the high rooftops
Blew out by wild winds
Strange noises sounding like some foreign language
Forbidden spells that cannot be enchanted
Forgotten words that cannot be pronounced
Spoken truth, unsettling mystery, world conspiracy
All makes part of what they want
To cover my existence, to veil my sanity
All makes part of what they know
To counterfeit my visage, to forge my death

They made me hollow, they made me disappear
I am just a stranger with no name
They made me mad, they made me crazy
I am just a psycho with no sanity

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Copyright 2012 Melancholic VIncent
Published on Monday, July 30, 2012.     Filed under: "Poetry"

Author's Note:

Another old poem.
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  • A former member wrote: This poem made me feel what you were describing by the feeling

  • Melancholic VIncent On Thursday, November 29, 2012, Melancholic VIncent (428)By person wrote:

    It's a poem's mission to do exactly that, thanks for your comment

  • Nehema On Friday, August 17, 2012, Nehema (958)By person wrote:

    This is the best write I've read all day. Wow, I feel this and the confusion of not knowing your name, purpose or anything at all was followed by a serious panic attack for me. I need to read more of your work. I like the words you choose - XXOO Scholar

  • Melancholic VIncent On Friday, August 17, 2012, Melancholic VIncent (428)By person wrote:

    Thanks for your words. This one, I guess have parts that are really good, and others that I perceived as unattractive, but maybe it's a matter of perception, and others may love it whole as you. Thanks for showing me that. :)

  • dwells On Wednesday, August 1, 2012, dwells (4177)By person wrote:

    Deleted another old comment after further perusal - maybe John Doe is beyond the reach of some, gifted beyond the norm, and that is the cross to bear, cheers! And sometimes we can make ourselves crazy too (and save them the trouble).

  • Melancholic VIncent On Wednesday, August 1, 2012, Melancholic VIncent (428)By person wrote:

    It's okay Dan. Well, for me a gift as became to be such an ambivalent term. for a gift can be also a curse. It's the other side of the coin.

  • A former member wrote: Very vivid and descriptive! :)

  • Melancholic VIncent On Wednesday, August 1, 2012, Melancholic VIncent (428)By person wrote:

    Thank you for your contribution

  • dwells On Monday, July 30, 2012, dwells (4177)By person wrote:

    And I meant to add most enthusiastically, very well done and a most marvelous missive!

  • Melancholic VIncent On Tuesday, August 7, 2012, Melancholic VIncent (428)By person wrote:

    Thanks Dan

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