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I was asked by a man, for whom do i live for
and i answered, i live for me
And the man answered
then you live with your eyes closed
and your heart shut
and as soon as he had answerd the man dissapeared.
A few years after, war broke out
Life changed
food was rationed
people dropped like flies
thousands lying there
like, like, like
bricks, stacked
one after the other
And we just accepted it
We looked at them like ornaments
like peices of furniture in your home
We forgot about the families of these unlucky few
I saw the same man and he asked me again
For whom do you live for?
And i told him, i told him that i lived to stay alive, to survive
and he said the same thing
then you live with your eyes closed
and your heart shut
and as soon as he had answerd the man dissapeared.
A month after i met this estranged man
i enlisted in the army
I killed man after man
slaughterd them like cattle
there was not a single second of regret
i fought for my country, for those whom had died at the hands of these villains,
in my eyes, the men that fought against us were no longer fellow man
rather, they were monsters, demons, so killed as many as i could
no regret, for regret warms the coldend heart
it was late december as we moved into the heartland of our enemy
and i met this man again
and he asked again, for a third time
For whom is it that you live for?
and i answered, i once lived for myself, but now i fight for my country
And the man looked and smiled
he said: then you are a dog of country
you wag your tail when your master throughs you his treat
and youll fight to death, to protect this unworthy man
and again the man disappeared
It was at the hight if the war
that i understood,
what the man had said
we were stationed a mile away from the demons heart
And were attacked
we were cought off guard
and i lost all of my men right before my eyes
and was taken prisoner
It was in the last few seconds of my life
that i met this man
and he asked me, with a big grin in his toothless mouth
For whom do you live for?
Do you live to sustain your greed
Do you die for another mans ambition
Do you fall when the winds of change strike
Do you cry when you see your comrades fall
What do you live for?
For what
For who
WHY, why do you fight to stay alive
and i could only answer
I live for my myself
for i am man
but my needs
my needs are not of flesh
they are not of gold
they are not of pride or ignorance
I live my life for MY ideals
for MY dreams
i fight to prove MY point
and it is with these hands
though they are bound now
that i will endure change
and it is for my heart
FOR MY HEART AND MY SOUL THAT I WILL LIVE FOR!
THAT I WILL GLADLY DIE FOR!
The man then drew back
smiled
and finally looked away
disappearing, taking the world with him.
- by solereeper |
- Fiction
- | Submitted on 11/01/2010 |
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Comments (2 Comments)
- Hinata5555 - 11/16/2010
- totally agree
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- Murac - 11/10/2010
- I like, creepy in a way, but I like.
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