2025년 9월 18일 목요일

Episode 5: Fear’s Cloak, Courage’s Heart

 


“The Word That Walked Toward Him”




He held a rifle.
A box of live rounds sat beside him.


He lied surrounded, silent.
I walked toward him—unarmed.
Toward his trigger,
hoping it would not turn toward me.


“Private Gim, 

you made a mistake.
You shed no blood.
You harmed no life.”


Those words were comfort.
They were judgment.
They were strategy.


But beneath them,
lay my deepest instinct:


“Please, don’t shoot me.”
“Please, don’t take my life.”


That word was a shield.
It was a prayer.
It was the language of survival.


I tried to understand him.
But I also hoped
he would understand me.


That day’s word
was born of fear,
but clothed in courage.


I survived.
He survived.
And that single word
protected us both.

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