Come Hangman take this life of mine,

I deserve the noose for my heinous CRIME

I’ve spent many years here, full of remorse,

And now know Justice must take its course

Rights groups plead on my behalf.

Their very actions make people laugh!

I’d prefer the rope and soon be gone,

Than suffer this torture on and on.

They plead for my life, as he did for his,

When into his neck I plunged the kris.

Not for a moment did I care for his life,

Nor the fact he had a son and wife.

I full well knew my action was wrong,

But my lust for lucre prodded me on.

For he was the obstacle in my path,

He turned me into a psychopath.

Repentance and remorse can’t compensate

So, I reluctantly accept my inevitable fate.

I know that very soon I must die.

"There’s no redemption," I finally cry

Death soon will come, I know it well

More than death, I fear life after, in hell!

Ninette Fernando
Moratuwa.