Jailed Poem by Joshua Thomas

Lives have come, and lives have gone,
I don’t know about a lot, but I know about one.
Come, children, and enjoy the show.

Life is hard, but none as hard as this,
Listen closely now, or the lesson you’ll miss,
The pains in life go by too slow.

A man once lived in a happier time,
But others believed it was too sublime.
And within jealousy, evil will sow.

They wrecked his house, and beat him still,
With a knife to his throat they could feel the kill.
But remembered what he had, and smiled real slow.

They turned to his kin, “Let’s have some fun.”
They raped his wife, they killed his son,
Forced to watch his family slowly go.

They framed our hero, and left no trace,
“A man murders his family, an open and shut case.”
Tears joined the blood stained snow.

The police arrived, but far too late,
They saw our man, and sealed his fate.
The innocent actor, played the devil’s roll.

With shattered dreams and a broken spirit,
He cries aloud, but the guards won’t hear it,
Hell’s never seen a more troubling soul.

Twenty years never go real fast,
He tries to repent but he’s chained to his past,
He’ll live his life, “sins” in tow.

They came when he was old and gray
He asked them calmly if they remembered the day
“You took my family, my life, my home? ”

They laughed aloud, not knowing this man,
He lunged across and with two great hands,
Slowly took what each man owed.

With two dead at his feet, a man is free
Guards scream behind bars he cannot see
“Revenge is sweeter, when saved from woe”