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The Mockingbird's Song
August 3, 2013
How can you live with what you did?
You knew the truth yet still you hid.
You heard the innocent make his plea
And turned away as the guilty went free.
You can't even meet the condemned one's eyes.
You're now entangled in this town's web of lies.
You can't meet his tear filled gaze at all
As the twisted "victim" walks away smiling and tall.
The shame still shines on your sullen face,
Your mind now lies in that haunted place.
No matter the repentant tears you cry
The Mockingbird's ghost will never die.
© Jacqueline T., Flowermound, TX
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StarlitSunrise DIAMOND said...
on Aug. 15 2013 at 3:21 pm
This poem is incredibly powerful. I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird, but this seriously makes me want to.
