408 years....

Witch Hunt
by Alastair Adamson

I am innocent

I am innocent

Please release me,

for I am innocent

Before that day in front ofThe Magistrate

I swear I had never seen those girls before

I know not their names nor ages

Where they live or their families

I am innocent

All today the axes spoke

Rough discourses with each tree felled

There is but one punishment for the crime

I have been accused of

And my memory replays the sickly odor

It's dark in here

I am innocent

The axes stopped,

the oxen stopped

Time stopped

And upon the conflicting testimonies

Of three young ladies

I was led to the pyre

For the blasphemous crime

Of Witchcraft...

on July 19th, 1692

in Salem, Mass.

Rebecca Nurse
...was hanged to death.

her condemnation was Witchcraft ~
she was 71 yrs old.

Lest we never forget...

Blessed be!

Lori