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Click hereThe image of her mother
But incapable of the same denial
You watched her
From your bathroom window
Forsaking things you could not have
You focused on innocence
Rejected by the adult
You turned on a child
Her childhood and her life
You destroyed for lustful anger
Mother’s rejection you revenged
With unimaginable evil
After the atrocity
You bargained for her body
While searchers combed hills
You sought a devils deal
Blond haired and blue eyed
The lost child haunts us
Crushed hopes assaulted
Shattered under a tree in Dehesa
The parent’s fears realized
Communities spirits fallen
While you sat in court
And said the lie “not guilty”
Only you will know how long
She cried and suffered
While you drove the back roads
From sea to desert sands
Were you convinced
Before her end
Did her feeble struggles
Reach what you call a soul?
-Dedicated to the memory of Danielle Van Dam
This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 37,000 poems.
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this is almost too good... I cant read any more of these ..excellent work belegon, just fucking terrible beauty in your words
...of this challenge that I've read and re-read - I am going to have to stop. All are so powerful, each in their own way and I'm emotionally exhausted.
This poem would have benefitted from a short pre-amble to explain the story for us ignorants.
I voted on Belegon''s poem, I do not use the thermometer.
That gave me chills.
You did justice to such a sensitive issue.
Fantastic job!! ;-)
I am not familiar with this case, but I will be soon. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
thank you, this was so accurate and true. i will post a response to this in poetry, only as anther way this can be seen.
precedent law will allow a criminal to go free on a technicality or, possibly, the ignorance of a long dead judge who had a different case to try will determine the sentencing of a guilty murderer.
The acts of a person on another are cruel, the acts of a society that allows a murdering criminal to even apply for parole are inhuman.
i forget to use the thermometer half the time anyhow so i just don't bother with it anymore, i rated this, and also, i enjoyed the read in a sad sort of way!
doing one on the issue, but wasn't sure how to make it work.
this was a sad write.
the reality of life sometimes has such a harsh bite.
ty!