Appearing stealthfully, unnoticed
Striking like lightning's flash
A sudden lethal bolt of cold steel
Look in that man's eyes, betrayed
See the fear, the realization
Mortality and fear, the end
Given with a committed force
His respirations frozen by it
Stopped in a spasm of pain
The impaled pressures combined
Of weapon and hand impede
Together forcing life's bonds
Departing quickly, uncerimoniously
Intimacy of violent intention
The touch of a foe of fate
Ebbing warmth, lost breath
One falls, the other walks on
A moment slipping by, ceaselessly