Do the Write Thing

Do The Write Thing

(25 lines, 160 words)

The Right Thing

What would you do

With a life in your hands?

Those begging eyes

Pleading for clemency

For an existence hanging in the balance.

So easy it would be

To let the knife drop

To let the bullet fly

Out of your control

Snuffing out another.

Would it satisfy you

To see the skin go pallid

The eyes glaze over

A carcass crumple to your feet?

Do you enjoy the thought

Of a mother weeping

A father distraught

A family rendered asunder

From your crime?

I pity you

The likes for which this decision is easy.

Just hope that if you ever find your life

In someone else’s hands

They know

The right decision to make.