7/28/2019 Free Will Demands Punishment

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Free Will demands punishment

They hung

me for clumsy crimes

and petty acts

committed unwittingly.

I hung

at wits end;

swung

back and forth

in time

with the ropes creak.

It did not concern me

to be hung -

coming from a treeI was used to the feel

of suspension.

I will admit

that hanging there

gave time for thought.

I regretted the hurt

to Geppetto who stood

below, eyes raised

as if I

a mysterious sacrifice.

My breath exited,

I found though

that toes

had kept some sort of consistency

with distant roots

while fingers

became leaves.

I spread out;soaked in the world

while time

became the preoccupation of those

who hung me.

When they cut me down (again)

I ran to Geppettos arms,

wept tears as thick as sap;

promised him Id do better

with a second chance.