WHAT LAST FOREVER?
POETRY: BY – JOSEPH MAXWELL SPENCER
Amidst the ruins of life
People dazed through pains and strife
Of the sadness of all human things
Revolting in their coarseness and crudities
The horror of the circumstances of life itself
Hatred and vanity and greed
Out of the confluence of my own thoughts
I set myself to reflects on life,
What last forever?
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Amidst the ruins of my court trial
Crushed by anguish of a criminal charge
Bewildered with terror at police allegation
A depressing reality with no victim allegation
Of police falsification of evidence at court trial
Insidious attempt to corrupt my innocence
Out of the confluence of my own emotions
I set myself to asked the simple question,
Will my faith in humanity ruin forever?
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Amidst the ruins of my criminal conviction
Mantle of the true liar has fallen upon me
The jury has been obliged by opinion-evidence
Verdict of guilt brought by balance-of-probability
False evidence produced in justification of opinion
Media became frenzied with the absurd conviction
Out of the confluence of my own tears
I set myself to cried out,
Will the fallacious conviction torments me forever?
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Amidst the ruins of my prison sentence
Being convicted of things I had not done
To be punished for what is humane in me
And to justify the moral perversity of my prosecutors
My imprisonment is one long moment of sufferings
A circle of pain chronicled in a seven-year prison sentence
Out of the confluence of my own sorrow
I set myself to laments my grieve
Will my memory of prison haunts me forever?
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Amidst the ruins of my imprisonment
Behind the cell door I became tearful in sorrow
Of prison authority feigned ardours and unreal rhetoric
My suffering absolutely remarries me to God
A source of infinite distress that wears no mask
To conceive happiness is extremely difficult in prison
Out of the confluence of my own appeal
I set myself to publicised my complaints,
Will my mental pain of imprisonment traumatise me forever?
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Amidst the ruins of life
I now approach life from a different standpoint
With frank, fearless statements of truths
A natural disdain to overcome at any rate
And to make the worse appear the better cause
To wrest for a life of peace from the ruins of life
Out of the confluence of my own witness
I set myself to proclaim the testament of human life,
Nothing last forever!
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