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Justice Crucified

April 2, 2009
By phillip smutherman BRONZE, Charlotte, North Carolina
phillip smutherman BRONZE, Charlotte, North Carolina
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For now the eyes of judgment shall awake:
His brow is stark with anticipation.
And now on his shoulders new death will make
The fate of whom is now lost, forsaken.

The shackles are braced; the blaze is unseen-
And shielded out by the concrete fortress;
The illuminated and omniscient fiend
Will remain for all years till all rest.

The specters loom about behind the glass;
Nature’s last call to lost life is present.
For all it knew about its child will pass;
The captors unrelenting she’ll resent.

I know his name by which his mother ca


The author's comments:
This poem is about being an African-American without hope and without justice. The main figure is unnamed to the rest of the world because he is ‘just another statistic’. However, his mother and family and the natural world (referred to as ‘she’ in line 12) know of his innocence and he is a person who matters in their lives and to God.

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