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I killed a spider today.


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It was inside of an old zip lock bag I had picked up to throw away.

I was going to throw it away anyways, there was no reason for me to kill it.

But  I squeezed the bag around it.

I felt its abdomen on my fingers through the bag where it was trapped.

It felt like I held a pea between my thumb and finger. I felt the pressure I put upon it as I squeezed.

It exploded within the bag, a mess of blood and viscera.

My fingers outside of the bag were clean.

I reflected on it then; though in truth I was in a subdued state of reflection even as the event occurred.

Why?

Why had I chosen to be cruel? Why did I take deliberate action to go out of my way to harm another being?

Why did I take a life?

Did I feel that because my hands were clean, I was absolved?

I am not.

 

 

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