The Five Senses

I.

I see pain

the elderly ones in child's bodies

reaching out for sustenance

from those who can give but don't.

I see pain.

II.

I hear agony.

Wails of a baby wanting

needing love

neglected for so long

and told to become something else.

I hear agony.

III. 

I smell death.

Stagnant air filling my nostrils,

the bodies of the precious

must lay here.

But surely they may be ignored

one day longer.

I smell death.

IV.

I taste blood.

Cliched vampiric lust? No.

But the life of those I could not save

courses through me now.

Is it theirs or

is it mine?

I taste blood.

V. 

I feel nothing.

Not anymore, for

is there a point to surprises

when you know what is to come?

Is there a point to building

when in the end all that is left

is a pile of nothing?

I feel nothing.

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