A Dead Man

The Secrets

In the end Oliver Ranhook never found out about 

The secrets his family was hiding

But someone somewhere knows

And everyone has sins to confess

“My name is Cecile Ranhook, maiden name Hernandez

And I had an affair with Ron Bennet.”

“My name is Jesse Ranhook, 

I fell in love with a woman in brazil and we had started a family

A year before my father died.”

“My name is Olive Ranhook

And I was in the other car that killed Dale Hitchcock, 

but I was so scared and I paid off Officer Bennett to keep quiet.”

“My name is Amelia Brown, and I was hired by Mr. Smoky 

To kill Oliver Ranhook but I was never able to.”

“My name is Oscar Ranhook, and I hired Amelia Brown 

When she was about nine years old to kill whoever I told her to.”

“My name is Bartholomew, but I go by Arty, 

I’m also a Ranhook, and I was Oliver’s half brother.”

“My name is Ron Bennet, and I killed Oliver Ranhook.”

Terror seems to swallow us whole

In fits of doubt 

Questions bury each other

In overwhelming fashions

It could’ve been the killer, 

Or maybe some ghost 

Or maybe himself 

That was the cause of his untimely death 

But no one in the living except the criminal 

Can really ever know what exactly happened 

But as for the truth

Hidden within depths

It stays drowning 

Conflicting with everyone renditions

Anyone could be guilty in the end 

Maybe 

Even

Me

My name is Dale Hitchcock and I told you 

The story of the dead man that is Oliver Ranhook