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RANKS Category: Art
RANKS (work in progress?) There are too many instances in our lives where humans are capable of sin. Maybe these horrible things wouldn’t be happening to them if they didn’t get free will. Thank God I’m not one of them, though. I am a door. It was my first day of basic training. Everyone around me was trying hard to do as they please. I knew they needed a leader. It wasn’t going to be me. There were all sorts of jobs in the infantry that people did. But nobody really understood it like me. I was living in California at the time. I was a medical sergeant. I saw all the people who wanted to detonate bombs to kill me. I saved all those people that got blown up in Afghanistan. I flew from parachutes. I played with sticks on the ground and drew pictures in the mud. I drew blood. I saw my best friend die in front of me. I am a door. I joined the military a couple weeks after September 11th, 2001. I was 19. My father leapt out of the second to top floor of the world trade center on fire and he died. This is it. I jump into the amphibious vehicle next to my tent and start driving. Driving, driving, into the ocean. Into forever and not understanding. Not understanding fully what even I am doing. Why I was even trying. I didn’t close the roof. Water started rushing in like swarms of bugs and beetles. I opened my mouth, my face was the door. I let the world pull its fingertips down down down into my esophagus. I was that door. I led to a world of pain. I saw the lighthouse up ahead and a swimming white horse.
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