Word Prompt: Hands
Windswept sands..
Silence with but a glance..
There’s blood on my hands..
They didn’t stand a chance..
Kindle my kin…
Stacked upon pyres..
Burned to ash unlike my sins..
Dusk mother I am sorry..
For I killed not in your name..
Honestly I didn’t care less..
Killing was all the same..
Enslaved to a tyrants folly..
But still basked in its glory..
Gripped my axe tight..
And swung with all my might..
My heart pumps raw like a burning fire..
Crimson drips fresh from hands of ire..
How many years has it been?
That I cannot say..
But all I know it still feels like yesterday..
For I don’t even look at my own people with pride..
Instead disgust..
The Steppes is where I call home.
But do the people even see me as their own?
There’s blood on my hands.
They didn’t stand a chance.
I burned my kin.
I accept my sins.
...Is that why I don’t feel anything?















