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Dark Poetry #2

To Be an Assassin...

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Member

since 2000-08-12

Posts 137
VA (U.S.A)

0 posted 2000-08-24 03:26 PM

(This poem's kinda long, and done in Free verse...)

My job is one that many would not be proud...
Like the cold, indifferent hand of Death,
I snuff, and snatch the lives of those unwary,
As quick, and unexpected as a midnight bullet in the dark.

Like a righteous dagger in the dead of night,
I enforce the whims of my "master",
And punish those who disobey, or commit treason,
With the gift of Oblivion eternal.

A slave am i,
To be called upon like some petty hired goon,
To carry out work my master cannot himself solve.
A truly worthless, shunned existence, save for those i work for.

I get nothing out of it to satisfy, or comfort me.
No monetary value can compensate for a Human life.
One that longs for independence outside of the tyrannical malformity
That is my ever ungrateful master.

Their souls haunt me, each and every single one of them
Their blood, and despair is on MY hands.
The only thing i contribute in this world
Is the pain of a thousand Hells all with one single bullet.

Trapped in my job now,
For there is no escape save for death.
How fitting i murder to keep the truth hidden,
Only to be murdered myself to keep that same secret hidden.

A prisoner of Death,
To kill upon command,
Only to save your own worthless existence.
An existence racked with bloodshed, lies, murder, and regret.
Such it is to be a hired killer....

To be a true assassin.

-"Victory needs no explaination,
Defeat allows none."

lotharingia
Senior Member

since 2000-06-04

Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany

1 posted 2000-08-24 04:54 PM

I like this approach to the concept of the assassin, the "agressor" becoming the victim. Very nice!

Lotharingia
"Dreams are life, reality, creation" Miguel de Unanumo

Xeonox

Senior Member

since 2000-04-01

Posts 1764
CA, USA

2 posted 2000-08-27 03:07 PM

I loved this lines:
The only thing i contribute in this world
Is the pain of a thousand Hells all with one single bullet.

You are very creative. Keep it up. I am becoming very fond of your reading.

Ronil (What I say I live by and what I live by is what I create).

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