The Innocent Criminal Poem by Ngwa Louis

Felt a cold circular opening
Where rest my head
Under persistent trembling
'All you've got' he scolded
Damped due profuse sweating
Doomed I became a patient

Toh toh! ! In the air
Thought I'd given up the ghost
Confined in fangs of fear
I believed death was the host
Why so unfair?
Possibly non did I offend

Now entangled in arms of debts
Internal bleeding a benign exchange
Still about to clear my doubts
Of who was behind the rage?
Too late for a vindictive culprit


An innocent criminal
Incriminated by hardened free criminals
As I got forced in an unprepared truce
Twisted I thought of the trudge
Inflicted by the unexpected battlers

Though naked, luck my third name
Barely struggling to stand
In mud I got stamped
An innocent new look
My thanks for all I lost