Revenge

I walk home after school,
I put the key in the door.
BANG!
I hear a single gunshot.
I slam through the door to find out what happened,
My pops stands over my mom’s nearly lifeless body with a gun.
I run to my ma, she is taking in shallow gasps of air,
I can hear the pain in her breathing.
“MA! MA!” I cry to her, awaiting a response,
She smiles at me and gasps, “I love you.”
…..
She passes on the afterlife,
Wherever that is after this life.
All of a sudden I feel something in me snap,
I stand up, tears on my face, blood on my shirt.
I glare at my old man,
“WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?!” I scream at him,
He looks at me like it is none of my business.
I run to the kitchen,
I grab a butchers knife.
I run back to the living room,
I repeat “What did you do!?!?,” with restrained anger.
He says “what are you gonna do boy?”
I slash with the knife releasing all the anger and pain in the world in one single blow,
He still lives, he raises his gun, he fires.
I deflect it off the knife, it ricochets in to his right shoulder,
I’m pissed off he still lives.
I jump onto him, I slash and stab, with a fury even the Gods would envy,
My bloody father finally takes his final breath.
I should be in shock,
But all I feel is justice.
I spit on his face as my final disgrace to him,
I run out the door knowing that it will only be a matter of time.
Only a matter of time until I face it again,
Until I face the beauty of Revenge.