Daniel Rollé

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My once shiny, mirror-like appearance is now reduced to a mud-stained spectre of my leather clad self. A thousand marches through dirt and dust have scuffed my material; the rain and snow have made of me a weather beaten rag. My insides fester and rot, my worn material mouldy from the putrid body fluids that have engulfed me so many times. I feel used and dirty, not the once gleaming, proud article of my hopeful past. I have changed, violated by the pain and suffering my colleagues and I endure every day.

Hands, cut and scarred, pick me up roughly and fling me across the room. I am ripped open and the being thrusts his foot into me, stretching me and tearing my golden brown stitching. As I am slammed down upon the stone cold dirty floor, arrows of pain sear through my sole. The beating continues as others join me, all stomping in unison creating a loud, hollow thudding noise which echoes a hundred times off the grimy walls.
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As we arrive outside, the cold hits me like a brushful of freezing polish from an underground storeroom. The mud covers me, suffocates me, blocks every pore in my hide. He hurls me through stinking puddles of degradation, drenching me and drowning my cries. I curl up and wish I were somewhere else, warm and dry. Suddenly I hit a large rock and the last thing I hear is the man howling with pain...

Later, as everything comes back into focus, soft hands caress my battered and bruised leather skin. A lovely feeling of a warm cloth ...

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