'Tis said that his parents disowned him and he was a delinquent boy <br />And because of that many did suffer and because of that many did die <br />He will spend his life locked in a small cell where he cannot look up at the sky <br />But that of little use to his victims though many ask the question why? <br /> <br />He went and did something so awful and any remorse did not show <br />For his innocent victims who never had harmed him people he did not even know <br />Yet they do not understand that he himself is a victim a young man damaged beyond repair <br />How can he care about other people when he doesn't know how to care? <br /> <br />He feels the whole World is against him and cannot blame him for feeling that way <br />If he only had received a fair go he would not be where he is today <br />And his victims today would be living society such monsters create <br />How can one show love and affection who has been conditioned to hate? <br /> <br />You chain up a dog and mistreat him and that dog will become one to fear <br />And he will sink his teeth into somebody if to him they venture too near <br />And a mistreated human no different to the chained up dog in any way <br />Society creates every monster and the price is far too big to pay. <br /> <br />The murderer himself is a victim and he will die in his prison cell <br />But why should he fear eternal damnation when life for him is worse than hell? <br />A prisoner till the reaper claims him the moon and the stars he can't see <br />Yet had he known love and affection how different life for him might be?<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-victim/
