A Penitentiary Triptych
Somniate
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A shameful walk through the lamplit streets Framed for murder The days crept by Week followed sluggish week Shivering all the time When the sun reveals its careless face Unbroken rows of iron doors with massive bolts Barred windows The palace of rot, a dreadful home A cavity with a pestilential smell In the middle of the prison yard A bare half-dead tree - We are alike My nails - all torn A despair-ridden heart bound in scorn I stared out into the black murk outside It stared back devoid of life and soul - We are alike The roaming one Lend me your sight These eyes can reach where I cannot reach I counted the hours Praying for them to pass What did it matter Whether I reached my end On the gallows Or by my own hand A half-open mouth A corpselike face Lips slightly restless Through them old words are born I will follow the voice To a casket or to a throne
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