I Think It Was...An Emotion

A Poem by Shadin Manning

Humans…
How I wish I can be like you
You contain the one thing I want most…
Emotion
You know how to give love and receive it back
You know what anger feels like
You know how to mourn for someone you love
Like how the family of my latest victim is doing at the moment
As I see his sobbing wife asking her God why this happened
And his children crying and asking their mother if their father is dead
I felt something strange
I think it was…an emotion
Envy
If I were to die…
Who will sob for me?
Who will sob for a monster?
A freak?
As those thoughts raced through my mind
I felt something wet roll down my cheek
I thought it was a raindrop
I looked up at the sky…it wasn’t raining
...I guess it was just a drizzle.