To Love a Villain

I take the offered flower willingly

But crush the fragile heart when turned around

I veil well this, my hidden cruelty

‘Til the fortress opens and love abounds

Quickly I strike, take what I freely can

Then change the image of my heart to stone

Turn deaf my ears, all her cries I do ban

Then smile in malice when she is alone

Having taken my fill of her pure soul

I leave it stained with my vile corruption

The tears shed in my wake fulfill my goal

To precipitate a hearts disruption

Love is the universal suicide

Endlessly crushing hearts one at a time

Her tears are like diamonds, jewels mined from grief

Eyes like pools of woe, where the dismal die

Like knives at deadly work, her vengeful teeth

Heart saw Medusa, stone enclosed its life

I’m a breeder of the bitter heartless

Ripping out hearts with a broken promise

Putting iron in their souls for hardness

Creating an army of the lawless

With each fresh face which mourns my rejection

The love that’s unreturned comes back to bite

To pay the price of misplaced affection

Makes a holy heart which is filled with spite

The countless I’ve joyously affected

 Have dark hearts that cannot be dissected

The broken girls go out into the Earth

They spread my wicked soul-sucking disease

They do like me, without the vicious mirth

The more my lesson spreads, the greater ease

Their hearts go down like dominoes throughout

One here, another there, all love and lose

In the end love will cease to come about

And all the hearts will ache and feel abused

My victims become that which they do hate

Rejecting poor lovers after they turn

Take what they can, then leave them to wait

And another one has his lesson learned

I enjoy playing with these broken things

The broken more readily crown a king