Criminal
A black, circular gun muzzle is pointing at me, the ghastly, horrible nightmare maker. A bullet can shoot out from the there in any second, but who could possibly know?
I am the last criminal in the world. I used to be so powerful and influential. People always tell their children, “If you don’t listen to me, I will send you to the man in the white suit on TV. He is going to punish you.” They never send their children to me, though. People always lie.
Take a look at me now. What a mockery! The most powerful person in the world is kneeling on the ground. Hair messed up and the white suit is dirty. I look at the muzzle in front of my forehead. If the finger pulls the trigger, my life is over.
I look into the black muzzle. Black despair is invading my eyes and my heart. Boom, this short and boring life will end.
Clap, clap, clap. Cold-hearted handclap is drilling in my ears. I am forced to kneel on the ground with my hands tied behind my back. The person right in front of me, or maybe I shouldn’t call him “a person”, is staring at me with coldness, and trying to find even a little bit of fear and regret in my eyes.
Of source, even if he doesn’t find it, his baloney can deceive those stupid humans.
“As you see, this sinful criminal is quietly waiting for his punishment. At this moment, does he feel guilty or regretted?”
Noise, noise, noise. Can these people stop talking for a second? I can finally understand why all my colleagues are so afraid to be caught. Jail’s food and bed are better than any place we lived, but nobody wants to be in there.
Jail and torture can only torment your body. But all the people standing beside me know how to nibble away at your dignity, how to throw your self-esteem on the ground and stomp it with their feet. They provoke it, walk across it. And watch you shouting in front of them like a dog chained by a rope.
“As you see, this is the last evil in the world. “The man holding the gun says excitedly.
“Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!” People are shouting spontaneously.
“Kill this guy! There will be a new world without evil!”
“Kill him! There will be no more criminals in the new world!”
Fervid finger pulls the trigger. I open my mouth and try to explain, but it’s too late. The bullet enters my head like a silver thread. Everything is over.
I can hear people cheering. They are celebrating the vanish of the last evil in the world.
For a moment, all the clamours and memories leave me, remaining endless, hopeless darkness.
It’s so cold.
