Death Sentence

What drove you to rage...

Made you kill in the night?...

...Which abysmal switch

Struck

In a way to incite

The deep sleeping tiger

That was

Always at bay?...

...Your anger seemed

Triggered

As if in your poise

You'd been grinding

Your axe

Underneath a cruel

Sun

That burnt through

Your shirt,

Never tossing a crumb

Of good fortune

Your way...

...But this wasn't the

Straw...

It was some other

Something

Tore you up

'til you're raw...

What drove you to rage...

Made you kill on a whim?...

...You'd been slipping

For days

To a fate that's so grim...

...Now it's all on

The line,

And it's you who's

Been called

To be sentenced

To hang

Underneath that

Wan ball...

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Bunny Villaire