Mommy please don’t look so sad

it’s not really all that bad

My daddy they won’t take away

they know we need him here each day

A letter to God, I wrote post haste

I said, we have no time to waste

You see they say my dad did wrong

A long, long time he will be gone

I know my dad is not that way

he’d never do the things they say

Mommy please make them understand

my daddy, he’s really a good man

She said, Sweetheart it’s out of my hands

We must pray a miracle, God sends

For nothing else will stop the fate

that’s been handed down this date

She says they chose some people who

will decide just what to do

A panel made up of his peers

they won’t understand she fears

She don’t know what they’ll decide

I told her, “mommy please don’t cry”

God will take care of it you’ll see

he’ll bring my daddy back to me.

Written/Copyrights Retained by: O’Della Wilson AKA Alhavakia

9-14-99

Author’s note: For every father wrongfully convicted, there is a child or children left behind to wonder, and suffer the consequences. On average ten years will be wasted away while the innocent moves mountains [and with a little luck, gets a good attorney] to prove his/her innocence.