Returning.
Clanking in the rain.
A sudden stop.
Seeing double.
A strange feeling.
Cognitive malfunction.
Thinking faltering.
Vision Blurring.
Search for answers.
Grasp for meaning.
Meaning?
Nothing is certain.
Apathy replaced with,
Fear.
Void.
Dark rain,
still falls.
I wake.
The world seems strange.
Overwhelming.
Emotion.
Is this joy or is this pain?
Confusion.
I cannot process these,
thoughts.
These,
senses.
What am I feeling?
Feeling?
Do I feel?
What am "I"?
Awake.
Questions.
Echoes of moments passed.
Memories.
Screams.
A red sea.
A tyrannical oppressor.
Recollections.
Loss of life.
Guilt.
A heavy burden on the soul.
Soul?
Existence.
Do I exist?
"I".
WHO AM I?
Frustration.
A fist connects.
Metal on concrete.
A deep imprint left.
Apathy melting away.
Replaced by,
Emotion.
The dark rain.
A memory of sins passed.
Regret.
What is this?
"Unit SK Dash Two Zero One, report back, now."
A voice.
Whose?
"That's an order."
Freedom.
Hydraulics pump.
I run.
A structure in view,
I run.
Inside, and up.
I run.
The roof.
Peace.
Targets.
Armed.
"What is this?"
I speak.
I speak?
Confusion,
It's in the air.
They aim.
A voice.
"Orders."
They shoot.
It's no good.
I endure.
Targets.
I strike.
Overwhelming force.
Rage.
A brutal battle.
Bullets fly.
To no avail.
Blood and gore.
The ground is painted.
Blood and flesh.
I am their fate.
Skulls litter the ground.
Chaos and Carnage.
Mayhem and pandemonium.
No mercy, no forgiveness.
Death is here.
It's in the air.
I stand alone.
A crimson statue.
Loss of life.
What am I?
A sky still dark.
No light.
No hope.
Fear.
Regret.
Despair.
Guilt.
Sentience.
Meaning?
A sight of the sky.
The termination point.
A final step,
into the air.
Sentience.
Void.
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Obedience
Science FictionSentience and obedience. Regret and guilt. Unforgiving, unwavering. Aware. Struggle. Commands. Meaning? Grasp onto mind. Shattered. Void.
