The Gallows
The trial was quick, the verdict read:
“Guilty as charged,” the foreman said.
The judge declared the man would hang,
the leader of a robber gang
who stabbed the sheriff with a knife,
and made a widow of his wife.
Appeals denied, his luck now spent,
to the gallows, the killer went,
and like a scene from Judgment Day,
the clouds above were red like clay.
Four horsemen standing by a tree
surveyed the crowd impatiently,
and saw the ravens fill the sky,
mocking the man who soon would die.
Christopher John Lindsay 