Betrayal


Tears fill my eyes and screams fill my ears as I walk.
I hear them yelling,
Some for freedom,
Others for the love they've lost,
Even a few gasping on their last breaths,
Plead for food.
You can see the death lingering in their eyes,
And the foul stench in the air is enough to make one vomit.
My feet drag slightly as I am forced to remember my most horrid memories,
Those of childhood,
Those of my first love,
Those of being beaten and kicked.
I stop at one prisoner's cell, if you can call it that.
Crouched in the corner of the straw mat they call a floor,
Dirty and grimy,
Disgustingly filthy.
His head nods up and he gives me a grin.
An insane grin,
Like that of a tiger…
I feel a frigid hand push against my bare-back,
I keep walking,
And suddenly,
I hear it.
The most sickening sound I've ever heard.
The deafening crack,
The soft drips of blood pouring onto concrete.
I spin around in time to see a madman,
A man holding an axe.
And the body of another at his feet.
And to think,
I'm going to become one of them….
All because of you father,
Because of you...