Collateral Damage

I look pleadingly into their eyes as they pull the last of my fingernails, The pain is excruciating and I pass out amid my heartrending screams. When I come to I am engulfed in total darkness, I find myself lying naked, it appears, in my own blood, sweat and filth. I try looking around but could see nothing, I touch gingerly and find my eyes swollen shut, My nose punched into a bloody pulp, My lips torn open, all my teeth knocked out. Jesus, where am I? What have they done to me? What do they want of me? I know nothing, I am just a regular Joe struggling to raise a family here, Hoping to live the American dream; What would I know of Jihadi cells or terrorist network? I begin quivering in sheer terror-- Oh God, did they bring me here just because my name is M U H A M M A D? ("Rendition" --The practice of sending a terrorist suspect covertly to be interrogated in a country with less rigorous regulations for the humane treatment of prisoners. "Show Me Your Spirit" contest by FJ Thomas