The Executioner

"The most advanced flesh

I stare behind my eyelids, but I cannot find it

An invisible enemy, I am at its mercy

Is it me?

It comes alive with zaps and sparks

Light, warmth, activity, life

But mine straps me in a chair, wires humming

Wets the sponge

And pulls the lever.

Neuron firing squads

        A bullet for a thought

I step in the blood of my past selves

While the line of the condemned stretches out behind me

I look back to it in my last moments 

And meet myself."