Javert’s Suicide Poem by Charlie F. Kane

How can I live in a world
Where all I ever believed in
No longer believes in me?

How can I follow the path
That the Lord has set
When this man lets me go free?
By rights, he should have killed me,
I am the law and I hunted him
And he let me go free.
To forgive is an act of a priest,
Not a criminal!
It is not his right to forgive,
Yet I have been absolved
Yet I did not think I sinned.
I now live, but live in a world of Hell,
I shall be bared from the gates of Heaven?
Have I been wrong all these years?
Is this world not for Javert?

I fall into the abyss of darkness-
This world cannot hold
One who would save his enemy,
I, the policeman hunted him
Only to have my life saved by him
And I want to capture him still?
He gave me my life
But he could not understand
That he has damned me.

I shall take my life,
Jump from the this bridge
And then into the night,
Into the abyss.

I thought the world was truly
Black and white.
I jump and the darkness
Engulfs me.