Retribution

Anger consumes me
need for revenge overwhelms
Retribution for all that he did
To me and to others
before and after
To see his eyes gouged out
his skin flayed from his body
his genitals tenderized with a hammer
Perhaps I am being a bit cruel
It is only a fraction of
what he inflicted upon me
stealing my very essence
to be used by him and his friends
and then beaten to a bloody pulp
left lying on the floor
a quivering mass of agony
If there is justice in this world
if I can find the strength
to mete out this justice
then I will be satisfied
But to know that he still wanders freely,
supposedly protecting those he serves
but in reality using them for his own purposes,
is a worse torture than any I have endured
To see him publicly humiliated
exposed for what he is
shunned, ostracised
incarcerated
at the mercy of those others
that he has helped to place behind the bars
would bring relief to my festering soul