The Crazy Stranger

Did this stranger appear for reasons unknown? Just like that no good half-crazy other? Another stranger among those he knows not But alas he may be the others rugged brother His mind, yes it wanders ever now and again While some even call him no good names But he’s seen life through eyes of horror But it’s always his kind that gets the blame Homeless, alone and he really doesn’t know What brought him this far down? But the kind neighbors all agree in unison on something His kind needs to up and leave their town There’s places for his kind and it’s behind bars So he won’t pester or harm our precious own And who knows what kind of disease or viruses Are still crawling around in his bones This vagrant needs to just get on down the road He needs to be somebody else’s problem you know We’re descent, respectable people in this town We don’t need someone hanging around, yep he’s got to go The sheriff beat him until he was bloodied and unconscious And some others drug his body down an old country lane They tossed him in the woods in a bloody pile Maybe he’ll wash away with the coming rain The local paper had his story on the front page It said some thugs must have killed this young man And the sheriff made a comment later on that day The county was behind him and were making a stand No matter how it ended in time and in space And no matter what made them lie as evil came out The boy they killed and threw in the swamp land Is not what this writing is all about? It’s about how people are afraid of the unknown And will kill if they don’t understand The boy who died there in the swamp Fought in Viet Nam and made his last stand He’d seen horrible things up close and personal And his mind just went sort of off site That’s why he traveled the roads of back country And that’s how he met death on that terrible night