I heard the screams <br />Of what was told <br /> <br />The screams <br />Of a man <br />Who should <br />Have been free <br /> <br />They chained him <br />They beat him <br />But they <br />Could never defeat him <br /> <br />As he stands alone <br />On a rooftop of hope <br />His mother pleads <br />Please set my son free <br /> <br />Three months long <br />On a roof with no sun <br />Just the wind <br />And the snow <br /> <br />His mind and body broken <br />But a soul so strong <br /> <br />Years of his life taken <br />All from <br />When he was seventeen <br />How could <br />Any man go on <br /> <br />I heard the screams <br />Of what was told <br /> <br />The screams <br />Of a man <br />Who was set free<br /><br />Dave Alan Walker<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-michael-hicky/
