Childhood Trauma That Creates a Serial Killer

A bedroom door that never locked, Footsteps heavy like thunderclocks, Mother's wine glass, cracked and red, Words that bruised more than fists ever did. A closet full of whispered screams, Apologies lost in fevered dreams, Father's belt, a sermon preached, Love, a language never reached. A dog buried in silence deep, Secrets traded instead of sleep, Schoolyard eyes like hunting knives, Laughter echoing butchered lives. The smell of ash, of plastic burned, Lessons no one else had learned, The joy of breaking dolls in two, Just to feel a shadow move. Windows rattled by unseen guilt, Churches built where lies were spilt, A hand too firm, a voice too loud, Praise withheld like poisoned shrouds. The grin he wore was not his own, But stitched from pain he’d never shown, And in the attic of his skull, He catalogued what makes life dull. Not born of hell, nor born insane, But carved by years of steady pain— And now the world must guess his name.