Starvation

= **Starvation** = By Harrison Pyros = = = = = = = Trudging through the snow-packed land with no safety in sight, = = Five had already given up and ten where left to fight. = = As snow came down, they turned their heads to look and glare = = At each other and their food, never willing to share. = = = = =

= Men hacked at the meat in the glaring sun = = And by the time they finished, the deed was not done. = = They stripped the bones until there was nothing more = = And ate the flesh on the snow-covered floor. = = = = = = = = They were disgusted at first and ate with a cry, = = But as time wore on, they developed a vulture’s eye. = = They licked their lips at their essence of life. = = It grew so great, one proposed to kill a young wife. = = = = Starvation crept closer and insanity grew, = = This was a fact most everyone knew. = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">A loaded gun was very tempting to fire, = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Especially at someone when food began to tire. = = = = = = = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Their feet were broken and bloody—just like their souls, = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">And their eyes were sunken into two identical holes. = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Their cheeks were concave and clothes in tatters; = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Surviving became the only thing that really mattered. = = = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">And in the end, one man made his way ahead, = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">To save him and the five others exhausted at the river bed. = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Those six were saved from breathing their very last breath, = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">And dying in the mountains: a cold, lonely death. =