A Question of Loyalty
Killing: swiftly, murdering, and destroying.
Techniques, methods, ways: taught.
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Taught to take, not give.
Ordered to give, not take.
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What is sacrifice? How far does one go?
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Limits- nonexistent, rebellion lurking in the eaves,
loss of power, loss of strength- unacceptable
a loyal servant, sent
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By what is it which loyalty is measured?
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Sacrifice, ordered.
Orders obeyed.
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What does it feel to destroy?
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Faces, features: identical, similar... his.
Mortality lying behind the features, employed.
Children grow at their mother's side,
Children grasp at their father's thumb
secure;
aunts, cousins, uncles, loves;
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Taken.
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Justification: unsatisfactory.
Justification: barely existent.
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Insides quivering, churning, burning, blending;
fading.
To stab;
to slash;
to puncture;
to wound;
to mar the flesh, deeply;
to submerge oneself in blood-
-familial warmth, replaced
drying lukewarm blood its stead.
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Death taken by the cold, slippery dankly dripping hands,
embraced and encouraged
called forth and gifted
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Conflicted hands whitely-clutch at instruments,
trembling.
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Taught to take, not give.
Ordered to give, not take.
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Selfish moment: "remain alive"
selfish request: "kill me"
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By what is it which loyalty is measured?
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Death invited,
awaited,
encouraged.
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Agony, eons, ages, years:
Death taken by the cold, slippery dankly dripping hands,
shaking, vengeance flickering in the bringer's hands
hatred brimming it the bringer's soul
disgust flaming, fanning:
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selfish request: "kill me"
selfless, selfish action: you're dead
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Brimming in regret,
loyalty, devotion;
love
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Tearing through:
pain, blindness;
loyalty.
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By what is it which it is measured?
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Death.
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