At 6 Years Old

Inner City Boy
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At 6 Years Old

It was a bullet; one finger, one pull of a trigger. It was the squeeze, one fraction of a second that
snapped the hammer of that one shot.

I watched in awe, watched as the body dropped motionless but still with graceful dignity. I watched the
muscle fibers release the last breath from the lungs. My body quaked! My eyes bloodshot red as tears
fell down my cheek.

How could this senseless act happen? How could one take a life they didn’t give?

Standing over his victim he polarized the kill, showed no remorse for the cancellation of life. The smoke
elevated from the hot barrel, dangling at his side the killer hands didn’t even tremble. Yet my body
rattled, I tried to stay still but I just witnessed the devil himself suck the soul out of a man…

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