James Moore Poet Narrative

Death Row Man

As morose as it may sound
I know I’m really just another 
Death row man.

No, 
I’m not locked away
For a crime I have done.

I’m free,
But that doesn’t mean
I’m still not on that row.

And that also doesn’t mean
There isn’t some crime I could have done
That would have me lock away and unfree.

I’m sure there are stacks of crimes
I have done
Just all in different lives.

And some of those lives 
Are in the past
And some are in the present.

And those guys 
Are now locked away
While here I am still free.

Death row, in the here and now,
Free or not
It matters little in the end.

What matters is our willingness
To be redeemed
And the peerless opportunity to be free.

So you
Who are on death row too
The question is, what are you going to do about it?

(7/27/25)

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