The Imprisoned One Poem by Francis Duggan

Just for a moment of uncontrolled rage
He must live like captive creature in a cage
He's deemed too dangerous to be let walk free
And mingle with human society.

They caged him in when he choked his wife to death
He squeezed away from her the living breath
And now his children burdened with the shame
Of a father branded with the killer name.

He'd found out his wife had been guilty of sin
She'd been unfaithful and had sex with other men
He acused her and called her conduct a disgrace
But she merely only laughed in his face.

She laughed at him and said he'd failed to satisfy
That sex with him to her no source of joy
He grabbed her by the throat his hands squeezed tight
And left her as a corpse there ghostly white.

His children do not call to see their dad
They look on him as some one cruel and bad
He killed their mother choked her with his hands
For reason they will never understand.

He's in a cage and serving out his time
And he's guilty of human kind's foulest crime
As man his own kind is not supposed to slay
And if he does the big price he will pay.