Locked Away
This is a sad tale of Amanda Knox,
still but a child in bobby socks
who enrolled in an Italian school,
far away from her parents' rule.
Her folks say she was a gentle child.
Perhaps she went a little wild
when by lover she was beguiled.
By a heinous crime she was defiled.
Sloppy police work, ambitious attorney,
poor Amanda had started on a journey
that would find her convicted of a murder.
She declared her innocence. No one heard her.
Her folks have gone to immense expense
to hire lawyers for her defense.
Despite their efforts for two long years
she's been locked away beyond their tears.
Amanda has grown so thin and gaunt,
locked up with criminals who taunt
and seem to think it their sacred duty
to make life grim for this young beauty.
For Miranda's "Behind Bars Blues" contest won 6th
Copyright © Joyce Johnson | Year Posted 2011
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