Poems Of the Day: “Gallows” and “Into The Light”

Category:  Sad  Title: “Gallows”

To the gallows

I must walk

To hang there

For all to mock

 

You people are greedy

I committed no crime

You need a life

So you’ll take mine

 

I have three days

To confess my sins

None I have

So you throw me in

 

In with the rats

In with the mice

Choking on bread

And old stale rice

 

For three days

I sit, I freeze

Close my eyes

And try my pleas

 

Each morning I rise

To your accusations

And try with my might

To push limitations

 

Tonight is my last

So with the sunrise

I walk to the gallows

You have your prize

 

There’s nothing left

That I can say

With the drumbeat

You’ll have your way

 

The morning has come

The gallows await

My body is yours

You sealed my fate

 

I walk with pride

I’m ready to die

I’m sick of lying

I will not cry

 

Up on the stool

Noose ’round my neck

The drums grow louder

He caresses my neck

 

Whispers such a pity

I lie to his face

The drums still louder

And stronger their pace

 

The time has come

Out goes the stool

I fall with a jerk

The world is so cruel

 

There I hang

For all to see

This world is blinded

By hypocracy

Author: Michelle

Category: Life: “Standing There”

Why are you standing there?

With no words to say,

Talk as if the cruel world gave you your sadness,

Sing to me as if the gleaming light, just awoke your

lips,

Inguire what it is that, I need to express,

Linger a little longer, while staring down along

jagged road,

But all the while I be here awaiting the explanation,

As to why,

This unusual sight, is to fade within our minds,

But never into our physical feathers that have been longing to reach,

Author: Jessica