A very quick sketch I made in a bus while I was abroad (part of a small sketchbook full of similar drawings...) ____________________________________________________
Some other small sketches from this sketchbook:
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The Hanging of the Innocent Man
A poem by Cullen M. Waters
I see not from eyes within I hear not over the rising din I feel not the growing breeze I speak not with frightening ease
The way I travel, once white with snow Is but the way I dare not go And growing great gray clouds do shed Icy cold tears upon my head When I stumble here unto the ground As darkness threatens without a sound
Oh, what sin have I committed? To which great crime have I admitted? What dread deed do I dare not see? By what right must this be?
I see not from eyes without I hear not though they scream and shout I feel not save the growing fear I speak not now bleak Death draws near
White noose around my neck grows taunt And this life no longer I haunt The gray people around me they do gasp Why they did this I cannot grasp But as darkness ends this awful dream A last thing I try to scream
“What sin did I commit! To what great crime did I admit! ‘Tis your dread deed you dare not see? By what right you let this be?”
All cry innocence in Death’s sweet face But none escape His tight embrace No matter what truth appeared Nor what truth was truly feared
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