Last words

I'll never forget how


They came to my house


In the middle of the night


Barging in like they owned the place


I've never liked pigs


They throw around too many accusations


I was scared


I was trembling


I was innocent


She looked like some lost puppy


At one of those awful dog kennels


Eyes huge and watery


Then I felt two cold metal circlets


Hard and relentless


Tight and unyielding


Like a parking space


After some idiot with an enormous truck


Decided to make your life difficult


Leaving one


Dichotomy of matching red ringlets


Encased around my wrists


So minisclule


They might as well just


Slip right out of the cuffs altogether


They forbade of things to come


So strong in my mind was the thought


It reverberated through my entire being


Like the annoying bass of a high school student's car


It was cranked up


To its highest zenith


At some point I thought


This was it


My life was over


That moment she was much like


A rambunctious teenage girl


Whose cellular device was just taken away


I roared at the top of my lungs


"Let me go!" My last words before


The officer shoved me into the police vehicle


The sounds were fascinating to hear


First it was piercing


Then it was muffled


They took her away


To the correctional facility I suppose


I watched until they turned a corner


My phone rang an hour later.


They found the real murderer.

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