A Snatch away

"but I am innocent!"
my plight
so sudden left guttered

I am innocent
please help me

The tower stood, creeping before me

I knew it was

The penalty

The great key that opened my cage
Dark rank smell

A living hell

All sealed

The wax has dried

My final hours
tis here
Shall I reside

My plight
for this last moment

I shall not make a burden

"Still the bell tolled"

I grasped all I could
to squeeze all my good

Forgive those against me
I leave
To only be understood

I always believed

Then
The executioner's
Silent shout

"And the bell tolled"

Deep down in my wet, rat ridden
cell
dripping waters
slow growing
the mold within my walls

My optical vision
heart felt call
for a rat
I called Saul

Alive breathing a moment dear Saul
My only friend

What fear would he know of mine
to where I sit writing
awaiting my time

I'm about to be slaughtered

You love me I know
you live amongst the slime
My final days of this time

My time has come
The guards are here
You know I caused no crime

Off you go now
make sure you come back

For the innocence's like me

To share company
Of a crime
That was not as we see
ssshhh who would ever say

Hear Saul
my family starved

In beds of wheat
Sickness abound

Couldn't let it happen
it was only me
no body around

My love for you all

We ate well that night

Yes unmastered
To carry on with the peoples plight

Crushing apples
They wanted me dead

No worries
to the core
of old ways they bled

"I stole the apples I stole the bread
even chance of squirted milk
I stole upon my stealth"

Hiding in the rubbish dump
hide and seek
my friend beside me
Full tummy we had

Stirring..... soldiers noticed

Then his friend
shot dead

They were 14 years old
then

Incarcerated Paddy was
To slip away
Ships ahoy!

Such a young

Aged boy
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Sophia E
XX
For you My Paddy
My Grand Dad xx