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Why?

Beaten, taunted and dragged

His shape increasingly dishevelled

Lifted onto a wooden chair in readiness

A noose gifted around his neck

This shaking weak form, a tearful husk

Is pitiful to look upon

As the noose placed around his neck

The hanging of faith, lest we forget

In a thundering heartbeat

They witness the chair get ripped away

What horror! The creaking rope whips

Under the sudden strain of his tortured frame

Eyes bulge in unreal fear

Carotid arteries crushed and ready to burst

As the nose placed around his neck

The hanging of faith, lest we forget

This harrowing sight before them

A father's throat slowly distending

If his neck is broken why does her writhe?

Go way of all flesh, relinquish life

Father...

A racing child's heart, a theatre of anguish

Inside his head, his father's voice echoes

And yet he still questions why he's now alone...

"Why have you been taken from me?"

Father!