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The Mockingbird's Song

August 3, 2013
By AnnieKate GOLD, Centerville, Utah
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How can you live with what you did?
You knew the truth yet still you hid.
You heard the innocent make his plea
And turned away as the guilty went free.

You can't even meet the condemned one's eyes.
You're now entangled in this town's web of lies.
You can't meet his tear filled gaze at all
As the twisted "victim" walks away smiling and tall.

The shame still shines on your sullen face,
Your mind now lies in that haunted place.
No matter the repentant tears you cry
The Mockingbird's ghost will never die.

© Jacqueline T., Flowermound, TX

The author's comments:
When we read To Kill a Mockingbird in English class I wasn't all that into the book. Once we got to the trial scene I could not put it down. I was trying to imagine how hard it must have been for the jury to say that Tom Robinson was guilty when he was so obviously innocent, and that's where I got the inspiration for this.
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AnnieKate GOLD said...
on Aug. 15 2013 at 6:41 pm
AnnieKate GOLD, Centerville, Utah
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Oh my goodness!!! Read it!! Haha it's amazing! 
StarlitSunrise DIAMOND said...
on Aug. 15 2013 at 3:21 pm
StarlitSunrise DIAMOND, Clemmons, North Carolina
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"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." ~Camille Pissarro

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This poem is incredibly powerful. I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird, but this seriously makes me want to.