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Guilty Parties
March 28, 2018
Convicts await on Death Row
Their reckoning still yet to come
To the electric chair they’ll go
Their hearts and minds already numb
I am not one to judge
When we have others’ lives in our hands
As guilty parties, they will trudge
To their godforsaken lands
I know not what to do
There are guilty, yes, I see that
You, them, me – do we rue
When death comes sly as a cat
Victims’ families are ever distraught
But are their lives ours to take?
Maybe if we gave this a little more thought
For the next generation’s sake
Guilty parties, yes, I know
I know that they did was wrong
Living on is harder than ‘the row’
Misery and regret will linger long
© Chris C., Pequannock, NJ
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on Apr. 24 2018 at 8:48 pm
@Malcolm_Chase OOOOOOOh, it's gothic! I love gothic poems, and this one's a good one.
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