Living Or Dying, It's All The Same

March Has Milestones

Author's Note: I feel like I should mention- I'm not a serial killer and I do not have homicidal tendencies. Alright, enjoy.

I beg for clemency

But the jury's out

What a shame that my wicked tendency

Is what brought my punishment about

I'm to be sent out with the chippy chopper

To rid everyone of the fear I emanate

Except it's too rushed and improper

For this death to truly be my fate

Three hours, they tell me

But I am not in the present

I am stuck in what I saw and what I see

Like, the blacksmith's iron is bent

As is his blade

The design is weak

A jack of not a single trade

Makes my future seem bleak

Except my will is a fire

Brighter than any sun

To forge a strength greater than any man's desire

Matched by no one

Death cannot hold me

Much less a puny prison cell

Soon enough I will be free

Without a person left with my secret to tell

I'm dragged by my neck to the guillotine

They wish to tear my limbs apart

They describe me as a philistine

But my work is the most glorious form of art

They're just mad 'cause she's dead

Her body my masterpiece

Her blood staining the floor a deep red

Her soul awaiting its release

I did her a favor

And this is how they return it?

I don't deserve this I aver

I guess I'll excuse their lack of even a bit of wit

I just want to say goodbye

To run my finger along my blade one last time

But these imbeciles refuse to comply

All because of my silly little 'crime'

Apparently they don't give mercy to 'serial killers'

But I refuse to plead

They just don't understand my kind is one of the essential pillars

That allows our community to succeed

I lift my head up high

Right before the final blow

I pray for something more than an empty sky

For me there will be no tomorrow

Fear courses through my veins

The executioner will deliver, that I know for sure

I want someone else to take the reins

Death no longer holds its same allure

I finally realize I want to live

Just as the blade falls on my head

I pray that God finds me easier to forgive

Just in time too, 'cause now I'm dead.