You think you got the best of me
Think you had the last laugh
Be you think everything good is gone
Think you left me broken down
Think I'll come running back
Baby, you don't know me, 'cause you're dead wrong
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm loenly hen I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter.
Doesn't mean I'm over 'cause you're gone.
|Surda|
I sat on a tree branch, 30 feet up in a pine tree, the sun just peaking over the shaggy tops of the dark green pine. The gentle rays of the dawns early light warming the cold air that sliced through my skin and chilled my bones. I small shiver ran up my spine and I shook slightly, getting a little heated up. "Today's the day of the reaping." My voice my hollow and sorrowful, every year, for the past 100th years, I was forced to watch two innocent lives of my people slaughtered in The Hunger Games.
I tightened my grip on the branch, my right hand turning pale from how tight I was holding on. I gritted down my teeth, bark digging into my palm. 'Does she know what this is doing to me? Everytime one of my people die from what living conditions they're suffering in, every time those poor boys and girls die in those damn Games, a bit of me dies with them! I am dieing, too. All my life, from the day I twas a little babe to the twelve year old I am today, I have always been cursed to suffer, an ill-fated life. My life has been pluaged wth wars. I was forced to fight and kill at a young age, forced to grow up with everybody I loved being taken away from me. I never have and never will, feel the love of a mother for me, never know what it's like to have a whole family, I go to sleep every night, fearing what nightmares of my past will come to me when I close my eyes. I-I have killed....Watched the blood of my enemy dripping down my hands, a grin on my face. I cracked--went insane because of people like you. I live in h€ll and you will never know how much I suffered because of you, how much I suffered in my whole life....I turned into a monster because of people like you, for that, you must pay. You will pay. You will suffer. You will die because of what you have done. I promise this, you will fall, I will end what you have done with my hands. I swear.'
A half-grin lited up the right side of my face, the sunlight reflecting off my dark green eyes, my crooked teeth gleaming in the light. Oh, yes. She will fall, yes, she will.