Disclaimer: I don't own FMA.

Author's Notes: I wrote this in early high school and it's free hand so don't expect many rhymes, if any.

Riza Hawkeye

Grotesque images come hauntingly back

Bodies mangled, lying among the dust

Shouts and screams of terror and rage

Hope, love, freedom and peace are nowhere to be seen

Fear is all that they know now

Descriptive thoughts go racing through her head

"Why was she there?" "What had she done?"

The worst of all sins is what she did

Complete and udder chaos and disorder

Murder is what they call it

True she was commanded and forced to do it

True she would have been a traitor, were she not to do it

But isn't that wrong? She had no right to decide that

Who should live and who should die

Playing God isn't her role

They continue to come, worse each time

Those images so horrible; those thoughts so distressing

No matter how lard she cries, they won't go away

No matter how long she lives, they'll always stay

Which is why she tries to repent and protect…

him