Meraki

The Torture of the Cousins

The long, hinged

Moving beasts

With oddly shaped

Hard helmets

Bit into

The fragile neck

Of the thin warrior;

Its pointed head,

Powerless

Against those strange beasts,

Was pressed harshly

Against the

Disfigured body

Of its distant cousin,

Murdered long ago.

Unable to bear

The cruel tension

It unleashed

Its powers.

It sucked the souls

Of the beasts

And hurled them out

Through its metal-like head;

Strange markings

Appeared against

The body

Of the poor cousin.

Any guesses as to what just happened? ;)

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For those curious:
The 'beasts' are fingers. The 'warrior' is a pencil. The murdered cousin is paper....