Her Love Betrayed

".....To the living we owe our respect, to the dead we owe nothing but the truth. Voltaire. ....... Her love betrayed, that's how Ruth died. All through her life, she'd been denied. Raped by father, Ruth felt the shame And from then on accepted blame For all the men for whom she cried. Ruth gave her love to one who lied. In anguish that she tried to hide, To her abuser, Ruth then came Her Love betrayed. A thousand people for her cried And kept a vigil when she died. Her lover killed; a bloody game Was ended in her trial of shame. Ruth Ellis hanged for homicide. Her Love betrayed. Ruth Ellis, 28, was the last woman to be executed in England. She was hanged after killing her abusive lover in 1955.