Man On Fire

*Author's note. I wrote this after watching the 2004 movie man on fire and wrote the feelings that I felt the main character Creasy had throughout the movie. Enjoy :) I was in the deepest darkness Hands stained with blood I was but a shell of a man Living my life day by day I had nothing to live for Saddened by the life I'd led Tired of the life I lead Yet I don't know how to end it One day I told my best friend "I'm tired of killing, Ray." He offered me a bodyguard job And it was then that I met her. A little girl by the name Pita The girl I was hired to protect She tried to get close to me But I pushed her away. A nun at her school once asked me "Do you ever see the hand of God In what you do?" I replied no, not in a long time. She then quotes the bible to me. "Be not overcome of evil." "But overcome evil with good." To which I replied with sadness "I am the sheep that got lost, Madre." Not knowing how else to deal With the hand life had dealt me I turned to the bottle to drown in And eventually remembered words That me and Ray had always used. "A bullet always tells the truth." With those words ringing in my ears I grab my gun, put it to my head And pull the trigger, click. Confusion enters my mind The gun did not go off I did not understand why. I go outside in the rain And see her face in the window Maybe now is not my time to die I continue bodyguarding Pita And slowly she wore me down I could not turn away anymore From her bright light And soon, I grew to love her She taught me that I could live again My life, once filled with darkness Has been filled with light and hope I was the saddest of men Now I am filled with happiness My days filled with laughter She was the one that saw it The sadness deep inside me And slowly she took it away One day as I was protecting her I notice some men going to take her I tell her to run quickly I begin shooting the men Before I know it, I've killed four But then, I too am shot I lose consciousness I wake in a hospital She's gone, I thought to myself. The kidnappers had killed her Her mother asked what I'll do "I'm gonna kill them. Anybody that was involved Anybody that profited from it Anybody that opens their eyes at me I'm gonna kill them." Filled with wrathful rage At the light being taken My one bright light gone I have become a man on fire