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Hunter.

April 15, 2015
By Isaac Anderson BRONZE, Tullahoma, Tennessee
Isaac Anderson BRONZE, Tullahoma, Tennessee
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Hunter

The man saw him, his hair like an ungainly, shadowy mop on his head, his eyes, the man saw, filled with a dark hunger, almost trying their damnedest to pop out of his skull & consume everything in view.  Death at his side, ebony fire blazing his trail, the man stepped forward, his hands gripping cold metal under his shirt.  The man didn't know this person he approached.  He could have had friends, a life, a family, but the man didn't care, this had been his lot in life since that cold winter’s night.  That night, when he vowed to show them what they’d shown him.  I wonder: did he realize, as he brought cold, unfeeling black iron to bear on this thinking being’s heart, bullets tipped with wood at the ready, that he was the same-or, at least, growing to be the same-as those vicious demons of night that he was making this man to be one of?  An uncaring animal, killing all that looked a target and anything between them?  I cannot help but remember, alongside the sound of a deafening BANG the old proverb: "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
 


The author's comments:

This is what is known as prose poetry, and is conveying... i suppose an irony rather than a memory or an emotion.  I got this idea after playing completely through Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (DLC included) and remembering the proverb quoted in the poem.  The general idea is that here the lines between human and monster are being blurred.  Notice how at the start the hunter is reffered to as "The Man," and the... well, let's just say it: vampire, is being reffered to as, simply, "Him," and other similar pronouns.  Later though, i start calling them both by different names, eventually turning the tables by reffering to the vampire as "A thinking being" and the hunter as "him."

As for "Ebony flame blazing his trail," that basically means he's walking up to the vampire with the steady, determined walk of cool hatred.  This is because fire typically represents things like power, anger, destruction, untamability and, of course, hatred, while black represents death, darkness, cold, the void and calm.

Here's hoping next time you watch a vampire flick, this has let you see it a little differently.


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