Ode To Victor Hugo (12) The Miserable& The Prosecutor Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

Ode to Victor Hugo (12)

Counterfeiting & the Prosecutor
Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

A man at the end of his resources
Wretched,
Was punished to death for Counterfeiting
false currency he had coined
His wife was arrested
when attempted
to pass the first forged coin
Detained and interrogated
She denied everything
The public prosecutor then advanced
Came with a plan he had devised
By the cunning use of fragments of letters
She had been persuaded
That her husband had been unfaithful to her.
In a fit of jealousy
she had everything divulged.
The man was doomed
He would be convicted
The tale was told
Everyone was in raptures, applauded
over the artfulness of the prosecutor
who had brought the truth to light
by telling a story overloaded
And caused the justice to be done.

The bishop listened to all this, outraged
In a drawing room he asked
‘And where will the prosecutor
Be Tried? '

Yes true monsieur Hugo
I agree with you and add
In societies corrupted and bad
that is quite sad
Don't say the authorities captured the thief
But say rather the Thieves arrested a Thief.


Freyad Hugo
Heerenveen
Augustus,2020