Rings full of sorrow

11:00 – They seem to have found my hiding place; I can see them from my window.  They will be entering soon.

11:13 – I don’t know why they are waiting.  No, what are they waiting? I should be punished for the atrocities I have committed, but the hands of a coward could never kill.

11:27 – I seem to have misplaced some memories, I remember walking down the forest with a women and her daughter. Now the guilt haunts me. Why was I just a spectator? I can’t stop thinking about it, I think about it again and again, again, again, again. Was I the spectator?

11:35 – I can feel the ghostly presence of my beloved wife and my cheerful daughter; I wish to repent for what I’ve done; but it seems that it is too late for that.

11:48 – They’re watching, they’re watching, watching, watching, watching, watching.

11:53 – Leave me alone; I can hear what you’re saying; that I’m just another fool driven by foolish men; and I won’t say no.

00:00 – They are in; I can see their bright eyes, reminding me of my fear of light and how I was betrayed by sunrise.  I contemplate those four rings on the clock as sorrow consumes me…

Matías A.