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Once Hatred

Once hatred welled up in me.
"Get me out alive", I scream, I pray...
Through my eyes, an unclear picture that precludes death.
I alone act as god.
The executioner of life's fate.
Life balances on my finger, then blackness.
I hate, I hate, I hate.
It's ideas, religion, and credence not like mine.
Not unlike me to it.
I can not hate long.
Now I draw courage.
I must not see its eyes, so intense, not unlike mine.
No thinking, only reflexes, and sense of duty.
The pungent air around me explodes, and reeks of death.
I feel the sharp pain of delivery in my shoulder.
The shockwave reverberates through my war torn body.
Through my eyes a picture all to clear, death.
Panic, hatred, then blackness.
It never heard the pain so intense.
The explosion in its chest.
It only felt the life quickly drain from beneath its hand.
With limbs flailing, grasping for a chance.
Grasping for a little piece of life.
Grasping, only to find it breath quickly evaporating.
I must not see its eyes, so human not unlike mine.
This is the blackness that is my war.
Then blackness for eternity.

Kenneth Cavner