She Falls

  Weigh her down with
  rocks, make people
  see the real her.

  Her husband calls out
  "she's innocent! She's
  innocent! Please don't
  hurt her!"

  But they don't listen.

  They don't believe
  the screaming man.

  In their eyes,
  she is a witch,
  a w***e,
  a person who is
  no where close
  to innocence.

  Her cheeks are tear
  stained and she looks
  at him one more time,
  before the rocks weigh
  her down.

  She falls down this rocky
  hole.

  She doesn't float.

  She is not a witch.

  But she is dead anyways,
  as her husband cries
  "she was innocent!
  She was innocent!
  You killed my love!"


 

Author's Note

In the 'good old days' people would hang women over wells and fill their pockets with rocks to see if they were witches or not. If they were witches, they would float. If they weren't witches they would fall down the well and die in a horrible tragic death.
Sooo I wrote a poem about it :D

Reviews

[+Naomi+]

Loved it..
Still sad how these things happened tho.

[CharlesMonroe]

Man this is depressing. Cause I'm related to witches back in those days lmao XD but the poem is beautiful, and well crafted, but horrendous. So many innocent woman died back then :/ Still. Love it :D

[Alicia Hirshey]

Wow. This is good stuff. But Horribly tragic all the same.

[Rene Velez]

this is good stuff, very visual and endearing in it's telling through the husbands eye's, the innocence of his love for her, we as human beings have faults and one of the biggest is being afraid of things we don't know or understand, an insight you can see very well, flecks of wisdom in someone so young...Bravo.

[Unloved_kitty]

Nicely written! Really like this poem =]
Keep it up!

[Zeitgeist Manifesto]

One Hundred...with three exclamation marks....
I loved it.

[Short.Nerd]

Very good!

[WordNerd]

AWESOME poem :D

[Protect Me Demons That ..]

Whoa, dude.
This was really really really really good!
Honestly, this is one of the best poems I have read on here so far. Awesome job.