This has been one of my most successful poems so far.
It was voted Nr9 in The Preditors & Editors Readers Poll in 2005.
Trial
Rightful or unjust?
It's the place of claims
and pleas and lies.
Questions reverberate
on the corridors of the mind.
The hall is crowded
and all want to
get into the court room.
It's the place where I defended
rapists, crooks,
the man-eater
and the vivisector.
But who will defend me,
the most terrible monster of all?
A long row of corpses turn up,
they were all called to testify.
© Ilona Hegedus, May 2005
First Published in Whispers of
Wickedness, June 2005.
This poem also appeared in my (self-published) book of genre poetry,Uneartly Companion in 2005.(It's not on sale anymore.)
It was voted Nr9 in The Preditors & Editors Readers Poll in 2005.
Trial
Rightful or unjust?
It's the place of claims
and pleas and lies.
Questions reverberate
on the corridors of the mind.
The hall is crowded
and all want to
get into the court room.
It's the place where I defended
rapists, crooks,
the man-eater
and the vivisector.
But who will defend me,
the most terrible monster of all?
A long row of corpses turn up,
they were all called to testify.
© Ilona Hegedus, May 2005
First Published in Whispers of
Wickedness, June 2005.
This poem also appeared in my (self-published) book of genre poetry,Uneartly Companion in 2005.(It's not on sale anymore.)