The Ending of Life
By Andamorph
It was really a short time ago,
when these things would seem blood-chilling.
I'd be terrified, I know,
I'd shiver at all this killing.
All these battles seem routine,
As we got on to the show,
My sense and my mind are keen,
My attitude is now "let's go!"
But many a life I've ended,
Many a people I've killed,
The damage I've done can't be mended,
Many a blood I have childded.
Innocence I have no more,
No, not in any way.
I've killed many, true and sure,
Practically every day.
I stay steady on my feet,
While all around me death I see,
When an alien that I meet
Is dying just because of me.
Then the next day I go to school,
As if last night I had slept;
as I pretended everything was cool,
as loved ones of the innocents wept.