Life For Death
A Poem
Published in
Dec 19, 2020
Oh life, where is your sacred
You once stood hallowed
Treasured gift and precious
Now so easily ruptured
By the rigid arms of revenge
Pseudo named justice
Proclaimed in a sentence
An eye for an eye
One life, another
Humanity, where lies compassion
Point me your conscience
That I may know it still breathes pardon
Of what use the retribution
Can’t we just have incarcerations
Of what gain the rigidity
The equal display of cruelty
I refer to the death penalty
Watching life sapped from humanity
Breath slowly fades at hangman’s bidding
He stands by never minding
Watching still
Until soul reaches home
Leaving behind it lifeless bones
Oh life, restore your sacred
An eye for an eye, the world goes blind
