Is it worth it? for M lady Gemmalyn

storypoem

 

Is it worth it?

 

The serpent slithered silently

 across the silken counterpane

His victim slumbered peacefully

 the serpent struck but struck in vain.

 

She did not sleep for she was dead

The serpent’s sting superfluous

Her stainless soul already fled

To regions much more glorious.

 

The crime he thought he could conceal.

 Would backfire in her husbands face.

The Post mortem would soon reveal

of serpents venom not a trace.

 

But would expose how she had died

The test for toxins positive

No matter how her husband lied

all his attempts were negative.

 

He was found guilty by his peers

The sentence was he should be hung.

All his bravado disappears.

He should have held his lying tongue.

 

He should have called the doctor  in.

Said he suspected suicide

 considered then a mortal sin.

And hoped he would be satisfied.

 

Instead he tried to set the scene

To lay the blame upon a snake.
but there was no snake to be seen.

This proved to be his big mistake.

 

The snake should have been on display

As evidence to back his claim

Its absence gave his scheme away

 and thus it was he lost the game.

 

 Be sure your sins will come to light

 no matter how you plot and plan.

It seems that fate takes great delight

 in pointing out a guilty man..

 

There is a moral to this tale

 I hope it is not lost on you

 attempts to shift the blame will fail.

Because fate will make sure they do.

 

 

29-May-08

 

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