The Imprisoned One

Just for a moment of uncontrolled rage He must live like captive creature in a cage He's deemed too dangerous to be let walk free And mingle with human society. They caged him in when he choked his wife to death He squeezed away from her the living breath And now his children burdened with the shame Of a father branded with the killer name. He'd found out his wife had been guilty of sin She'd been unfaithful and had sex with other men He acused her and called her conduct a disgrace But she merely only laughed in his face. She laughed at him and said he'd failed to satisfy That sex with him to her no source of joy He grabbed her by the throat his hands squeezed tight And left her as a corpse there ghostly white. His children do not call to see their dad They look on him as some one cruel and bad He killed their mother choked her with his hands For reason they will never understand. He's in a cage and serving out his time And he's guilty of human kind's foulest crime As man his own kind is not supposed to slay And if he does the big price he will pay.