` <br /> <br /> <br />let them dance to their tune <br />what they want they will have <br />they will serve my head on a platter <br />and will I breathe? it does not matter <br /> <br />I have done as I said <br />as asked I spoke the truth <br />You were right then: they did not believe <br />words having been uttered by a Youth <br /> <br />I know not about fear <br />I have no care for them <br />sixteen years of shame is all I bear <br />and know not what guilt nor what Life is <br /> <br />they may have now used me <br />when innocence works strong <br />it is well until we fade to years <br />we were brothers once in all and All <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />`<br /><br />Frederick Kesner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0-we-were-brothers-once/
