He had been waiting for hours
For his own execution
Sentenced to death
For a crime he didn’t commit
She had accused him of rape
But they both knew
That wasn’t how it went down
She had been drunk
And she
Came onto him
She took the man
Who was currently about to executed
By the hand
And led him to an empty room upstairs
She kissed him
And started taking off his clothes
He was drunk too
He knew she had a boyfriend
But he didn’t care
She stood
Erect
And naked
In front of him
And told him to ‘fuck her like it was hislast night on earth.’
So he did
But after a few minutes
Someone knocked
They ignored the knocking
Then the door came crashing down
Her boyfriend had kicked it in
‘WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS??’
The drunk boyfriend
Pulled the man off of his girlfriend by his hair
Threw him to the ground
And repeatedly kicked him.
The drunk lady just screamed
And started to point and yell
‘HE WAS RAPING ME!
HE WAS RAPING ME!’
The man would of died right there
If a bunch of people hadn’t of heard all the commotion
And rushed in
To pull the man off of him.
And that folks,
Give or take a few details about the trial and the treatment from law enforcement,
Was how he ended up right here
About to die.
Rape was a crime punishable by death in todays America
He was no longer the person he used to be before that party
He was broken
He was ready to die
He didn’t want to live in a world
Where this could happen to an innocent man
He had always been proud of his honesty
But his honesty did fuck all
When explaining his story to the cops
3 people had said that they had seen him rape her
4 people said that they could see it in his ‘character’ that he could do it
He wasn’t even sure his lawyer had believed him
Only he knew
He didn’t have it in him
To ever rape anyone
But that didn’t matter
Who he really was didn’t matter at all
It was all about how the public saw him
And they now looked at him as a rapist
So now,
Minutes before his death,
He was calm,
Hell,
He was even happy to leave this world
He used to believe in god
He wasn’t religious
But he believed
Well,
That was before
He had spent months
Furiously praying for God to save him
But God never did
And as a result
He gave up
He gave up on life
He gave up on western society
He gave up on everything and everyone
He was ready to die
But more than that
He was begging for it
How meaningless it had all been
His birth and life
All his beliefs and worries
Meaningless
He knew
His death would be meaningless too
He started to walk to the room
Where they would kill him
He closed his eyes
And took a deep breath
And smiled to himself
As he took his last steps
He felt alive
He felt present
He was ready for this
It didn’t matter what happened to him after
He knew
It’d either be nothing
Or,
There would be some afterlife
But he was now indifferent about both
If there was a heaven
He wondered if his accusers would end up there
The thought of this
Made him clinch his jaw
There was no justice in this world
There was just
Public opinion
If there was no justice in a world God created
He had little faith there would be a divine justice
He made it to the chair
Gladly sat down
They strapped him in
And in a few seconds
He was gone forever.
-C.H,