Saturday, May 4, 2013

Shame


I detest him. Watched him grow up—grow up to be nothing. Worse than nothing: an irremovable stain, a leech, a venom.
His anxious smirk repulses me. His ragged, gnawed nails. Vile. His vulgar chortle. A plague. Cockeyed, yellow teeth. Shame.
Not disdain. My virtue made me do it. I stretched out. Intertwined my fingers around his malformed larynx. Crush his impossible ambitions. Expunge the pestilence.
Blood on my hands...my own blood. Broken glass. The mirror I'd glared into had shattered from the pressure of my assault.
A refashioned Narcissus. I gaze with hatred instead of love, but just as self-enamored. 

4 comments:

  1. Wow... Every word is impeccably placed to bring out the most emotion.... This is really very good.

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  2. What Rachael said. This is incredible.

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  3. cree-py. but also the diction is impeccable, every connotated meaning, sublime.

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