I submitted the following poem to Just Write:
Guilty eyes
Upon a guiltless man
Hearing the mother
cry,
He’s eternally
damned.
He looks down as she
goes by
He has shattered her
world
His actions cannot be
rectified.
She turns and speaks
her first words:
‘Go to hell’ she
hisses
Her eyes screaming blame
She’s then gracefully
dismissed
Her baby’s death was
not his aim.
He begins his exit
Numb to his very core
Her words had hit him
even
Harder than the
courthouse door.
He walks out a ‘free
man’
Lawyers are
congratulated
This was not his life
plan
Everything’s been
complicated
Reporters surround
him now
Is this what freedom
feels like?
An escape he is not
allowed
They all look alike.
‘No comment’ is
mumbled
Through his weary
lips
His spirit begins to
crumble
His heavy heart’s
been ripped.
He thinks of the
flawless girl
Her face lifeless and
still
The night’s events
unfurl.
She should not have
been killed.
He drove his truck
Headlights so bright
She was high on her luck:
Not meant to be out that night.
He casually changed the station
Wistful blues poured on through.
She focused on her presentation
And gazed in the mirror, while driving too.
Tires squealed.
And horns blared.
His vision is real.
He was there.
Through the crash he blacked-out
He now remembers only
His attempts to switch routes.
But it was not meant to be.
Guilt for the
guiltless
This is where he lies
Who said freedom was
painless?
To the girl he is
forever tied.
I just found out I won 3rd place with the poem above! :)
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