Death sentence
By monodemo
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‘Extinction,
That’s what are after conviction,
Your crime
Is miniscule compared to mine!’
Said the lawyer after trial,
Just to prevent this vial
That you’ll be getting in your arm,
Harm, is what it will do to your wife
Pregnant, on your first child.
Violently you defiled
That little girl,
Curl in her brown hair
Unaware, of the predator lurking in her front lawn
At dawn.
Can’t you see what you did wrong?
You subjected her to violence,
Projected unto her silence,
Yet she was not the first,
Cursed with the mind of the devil,
Revel, in your last moments on earth!
Think of the birth
Of your daughter!
Feel the hurt as a father!
And think of what you would do
It was you
Who’s daughter had been taken,
Shaken to death
As she takes her last breath.
Have you any words?
Yes sir if I can confess
And say sorry.
The girls, the rest
I buried in the quarry.
After I slaughtered someone else’s daughter,
I confess!
Please father will you bless
Me for the sins I have committed?
Fitted with the right sentence
Entrance to heaven please,
Open the pearly gates
My fate awaits!
To my dear baby I’m sorry,
But your mommy
When she give birth,
Please god let there be mirth.
Tick tock.
The guard looked impatiently at the clock.
Shock seared through his veins
Until all that remained was a body
Dead on the trolley!
Extinct!
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No criticisms, this is a
No criticisms, this is a powerful poem, and it uses the rhyme well. I thought the first stanza left some room for doubt, is the lawyer apologising for having represented the murderer, or being unable to save him, and thereby his family, from the sentence? Also, "what are after conviction" sounded a bit off, maybe it needs an extra world "what you are after conviction"? And the explanation marks at the end of the last couple of lines I would probably lose as well.
So no criticism, because this was a great poem, just a few minor tweaks that might or might not be worth considering.
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