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Sunday, January 23, 2022

Mock Trial poem by Abhinav Aradhi

 

Mock Trial

Our blood-stained walls,

Gleaming with our ruby regrets.

Our corpse-colored carpets,

Rotting with our dead dreams.

 

Your blood-soaked hands,

Glittering with your scarlet sincerity.

Partners in crime forever,

Perennial jailbird mainstays.

 

You said you’d kill for me,

I thought it was a cruel joke.

I never knew you cared this much,

You damned lovestruck fool.

 

We’ll be thrown onto death row,

Injected with the toxins of humanity.

Or worse, we’ll be separated into solitude.

Three cement walls, and an iron-clad door.

 

Standing before a jury,

This brings me back to high school.

Judge us all you want, you heathens!
You hypocrites would’ve done the same thing.

 

I’ll plead guilty for your sake,

Since you went to such lengths for me.

I’ve gotten sentenced already,

From the moment my mother put on a ring.

 

You’ll be led away, with a tear-stained face.

Don’t fret, you fool, I’ll be back!

In the stars, in the air, in the fiber of being,

I shall exist, the mastermind of the heist of the ages.

 

Take me away boys, before I lash out.

Slam the gavel, and finish my eulogy.

 

 

 

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