Part XV

XV

And in the middle I waited

with a knife tucked in my side.

and waited

and listened to the snarls and the cheers

from whatever was booing and cheering
all over the arena 

feeling the sweat drip down my back

and remembering Michelle’s words

as she walked through one gate

and me the other.

I knew them as

it marched into the area

and hated asking me to step

into another world to

recruit a army of monsters

and would have hated me

being stood there

staring death in the face

again.