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
Copyright © Caleb Lawrence | Year Posted 2016
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