Epitomize the weak

Compliments or insults,
it makes no difference,
I cannot tolerate your lies.
Suffocate with vigor.
There is no repent,
there is no time to question why I do this,
because I must or do I just find
sick pleasure in displeasure,
in your pain, in your fear,
in your need to feel the feelings
of my unbridled hate.

There is hardly a difference
between living and dying:
only consciousness,
rot and a peculiar odor.
The time it takes to change
from one to the other can be
no more than the blink
of a lazy eye if I decide.

I can smell your fear
dripping down your leg.
There is no escape
from my grip of death.

Convince yourself
you're in a dream.
Close your eyes, tighter
you're still seeing things.

Whimper, cower, shake like
you did when you were a child hiding
under your sheets from the beast
under the bed. If you cannot see it,
it cannot see you.
That was rule number one
and it no longer applies.

Wake up.
You have plenty of time for memories.
Now focus on me.
I am the last thing you will see.
I am your docent for the descent ahead.
Brace yourself and prepare.

Beg. Beg for your family.
Beg for your friends and your pets.
Beg for all the things you would never do anyway.
Beg for nothing, I do not care.
You define desperation.
You epitomize the weak,
the helpless, the insubstantial.

Your time has come.
The knife slides in?