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What is hell?
Is it the smell of war
burning in the still-smoldering ashes of a now forgotten city?
Or is it the battle cry of Ares,
still lingering in the dying breath
of a soldier turned hero?
Is it the skip in the beat of my heart
at the sight of iridescent eyes
in the center of a face pretty enough to start a war?
Or is it the guilt that sags my shoulders and slows my steps
after I let him take a knife
that should've been buried in my throat?
Perhaps it is the dark aching of my bones,
as I trudge on and on and on
in this weak, mortal body,
that knows nothing of the word brave.
Perhaps it is the vast, cavernous vacancy in my eyes as I rip the life from another man's breast, not wanting to kill but not knowing how to do anything else.
I do not remember how I came to learn this,
but I know now that hell is not a place;
it is already inside of you.
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-Jordan
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Captured // A Winter Soldier Story
Fanfiction•• Reyna hasn't had the easiest life. Born to a father responsible for unspeakable crimes, she is forced to flee her home at the age of twelve, leaving her loving mother at the will of her father. Ten years later, Reyna, now a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, i...
