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Here Is The Story
June 1, 2015
Here is the story of little white jolts
That pierced through brown flesh to strike and kill a heart of gold.
Here is the story of humanity forgotten.
Beneath a blind society’s prejudice towards those who vary from their tone.
Here is the story of a boy a Bible high-
Sent to the heavens because two girls died-
Not by hands of his own.
Here is the story of a scared little boy of fourteen
Who died of shock,
with no mother to comfort him,
While on Ole’ Sparky.
Here is the story of George Stinney.
© Whitney K., Milford, CT
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I recently read the tragic story of George Stinney. He was a black boy in the 1940s-1950s (I think) who was blamed for the murder of two local girls. The town later found out that the actual murderer was a richer white man that served on the jury. I would like for this poem to give tribute to him and the life he could have lived.