I did it.
No matter who was in the Frame I knew
That who truly belonged in Prison Picture
Was me.
Through tangled knots and swords I took nine lives
To try to live mine right.

I did it.
I let them take away
From unity,
Just a piece---
A piece to drift through Time
No pain,
Severed from  a life given
To me by Injustice
But how I tried to live it right.

I did it.
And the troubled cries of "Guilty" clashing
In the heated air with the protests of "Innocent"
As Justice raised her sword and lowered her scales
Shouting away a pure life unlived.

Heads will roll by my hand
Hasty shields that deserved the blade and yet
The whisper of innocence
Clings to me
A wraith,
I took his life,
But how I tried, I tried,
To live mine right.