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[title] => Saving a criminal
[time] => 2015-03-03 09:38:44
[hometext] => What is a criminal, how should we save them from fate?
[bodytext] => Must I save you?
Must I try?
Through pitches wider than Omah
I traipse
The mud thicker than my thoughts
That tonight expose me
To an outer horror
The horror of me, you, them
All of us the same
And now I reach the realisation
Of why I am saving
Not my sanity can stop me
As brothers do not go
Ever ...
And now I must reach you
And your grave
Tonight I must save you
Save you from who you were
And what you have become...
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Saving a criminal
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thepoet353897
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Tuesday, 3rd March 2015 @ 09:38:44 AM in AEST
Topic:
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Must I save you?
Must I try?
Through pitches wider than Omah
I traipse
The mud thicker than my thoughts
That tonight expose me
To an outer horror
The horror of me, you, them
All of us the same
And now I reach the realisation
Of why I am saving
Not my sanity can stop me
As brothers do not go
Ever ...
And now I must reach you
And your grave
Tonight I must save you
Save you from who you were
And what you have become...
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Re: Saving a criminal
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by JamesStockdale on
Tuesday, 3rd March 2015 @ 09:46:15 AM AEST
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I like it.
Sometimes we all need a helping hand.
Well written! |
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Re: Saving a criminal
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by Noonetwothree on
Wednesday, 4th March 2015 @ 03:45:07 AM AEST
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Very nice poem!
It's sad how society is often quick to ostracize and condemn criminals when they are human too.
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Re: Saving a criminal
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by thehotshotpoet on
Friday, 6th March 2015 @ 07:35:12 AM AEST
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| truly understandable..thanks for sharing |
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Re: Saving a criminal
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by xHeathenx on
Saturday, 7th March 2015 @ 02:14:57 PM AEST
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Great poem, as it serves to get the mind thinking as it did with me. i like your take on it, as it's an important one to have.
Is it wrong to end you? Is it wrong to save you? For many people each is wrong in that it goes against their convictions. It seems the distortion and delusional attempts to portray one's self at a particular political spectrum's end, can cause one to adopt a whole persona, accept information given much in the same sense of propaganda and brainwashing, and then refuse to accept another possibility as a truth.
Conservative and Liberal are both used outside what their true definition is and once was. Now both are fashion statements like mainstream religions, especially Catholicism. It's a more "conservative" ideology to terminate life-sentenced felons, and it's the opposite for "liberal" ideology.
Some people, have an overwhelming stockpile of evidence around them, and have near-absolutely without-a-doubt have done seriously unspeakable(yet ironically, speakable) things, that in all honesty, the idea of keeping them alive, or ending their life, really comes down to how you look at it.
No matter how humane or inhumane, if one were to execute such a criminal, they're done. Out of human society, out of mind, save for some poor victim souls, and a stain on a single thread or two of the fabric of history.
On the other hand, if one who committed such crimes was kept confined, the isolation/boredom one would hope would serve to help them reach an enlightenment on what they did was wrong, and to show others, that society's (mostly) agreed upon laws and regulations have consequences for not being followed. If you want to commit such acts, convince or persuade others to turn that law/regulation, or go to to a place where it's acceptable, but good luck. Pretty sure no murder is a cornerstone law.
But here's the biggest thing of all. There's two ways to look at this I find important to share.
If you're monotheistic by nature, there should be guilt in wanting the death penalty.
You're basically saying "This person performed acts that God himself strictly warns about, otherwise you'll go to hell and suffer for eternity..." BUT, Forget the suffering for eternity part, that's their problem. If you are so self-centered that your God and Your loved ones are the only ones you would care for enough so that you would damn another regardless of what they did before trying so much as to convince them to be better as a human being or creature in any sense.
If you're not religious, you're basically saying Regardless of the crimes you've done, I want the same treatment to you as you have done to others, an eye for an eye.
How far does an eye for an eye go? Why an eye for an eye? One eye does not make up for one thousand eyes, does it?
Even if it somehow fulfills that satisfaction, you are still calling for the death of a human being. In that case, you are doing the very same thing your self, the only difference is you aren't the one doing it by your own hand, you're having someone else do it for you. |
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