Dead On This Table

I lie naked

Dead and alone

On this table

A dead man’s zone

 

Dead and alone

I lie and wait

On this table

Until far too late

 

I lie and wait

Forevermore

On this table

As a dead corpse

 

Forevermore

Hated I’ll be

For I’m On this table

For all to see

 

Hated I’ll be

and all rejected by

For I’m on this table

Because I killed I.

 

But an eye for an eye,

And a tooth for a tooth

Just makes us all mad

And far from the truth

 

I killed myself

For I thought it was right

But when I killed myself

I started a night

 

A terrible night

Of terror and strife

For all those I loved

For the rest of their life.

 

What I would do

To go back in time

And change what I did

And prevent my eternal crime.

 
This poem is about: 
Me
My family
My community
Our world

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