18 January 2013
I'm on
Death
Row,
Each day
That passes
The closer
I go,
To my
Demise,
Watch the
Tears,
Well up in
My eyes,
I'm not
Guilty
I didn't
Commit
The crime,
Now I'm
Serving
My life
Time,
No longer
Free,
I'm restrained,
In this cell,
I've given
My plea,
And you
Lock me
In hell,
Inconclusive
Evidence you
Say,
But I did.
Not. commit.
That murder.
That day,
I've been
Here now,
For 3 years,
And I've
Yet to take
My final
Bow,
With each
Second
Minute
Hour
That
Pass,
I'm closer
To being a
Statistic
Of the
Death row
Class,
I paint
My own
Mental
Pictures
On the walls
Of white,
I dread the
Time of day
When they
Turn off
My light,
Clunking
Metal doors,
Shouts and
Screams
I pinch
Myself,
This must be
A dream,
A mattress
On a metal
Frame,
I'm a
Prisoner
To society's
Game,
You put me
In the picture
To blame,
And now I
Won't see
The outside
World again,
I won't witness
The sun and
The rain,
All I feel is
Hurt and
Pain,
I count my
Breaths
To slow
Time down,
One
Two
Three,
It's like my
Life's
Countdown,
I had a
Life before
I was
Restrained,
Now my kids
Have lost
Not gained,
One day
I will
Receive my
Day,
The van
Will come,
Take me
Away,
To the room
Of death,
Where I
Shall take
My last
Breath,
I won't struggle
For air,
Ill drift off
And lay
There,
The injection
Lethal,
But entirely
Legal,
An eye
For an eye,
But it's
Truth not
Lies,
I'm innocent,
In a guilty
Guise,
And I'm being
Taken,
For someone
Else's sin
I am forsaken,
Capital punishment
Is still used,
But is it
A system that
Can be wrongly
Abused?
Death Row. • Opuss № I