The eerie glow reflected from the clouds
Illumined vaguely rounded shoulders, shaven heads,
The gloomy, dismal, silent crowd
Has sparsely spread across the round square.
Upon the planked stage there stood a cell,
A cowered man within, which paid no heed
To a mutt'ring figure in a black robe next to him,
That read aloud some written gibberish
'Another innocent in judicat'ry gnaw', I’ve heard;
'Who cares', another voice said, 'He’s condemned,
And so he'd been before this masquerade
Had even started, don't you understand?'
A thin bald woman paced among this lot,
The others seemed to take no notice of her presence
Yet when some hag collapsed and started choking,
That woman had approached her, offered help -
The old hag had refused that offer, though,
And overcoming her enduring seizures
Stood up and limp'd away from sight.
— And then the crowd, it seemed, stopped breathing.
I hear how one of judges yells out loud:
'There is a certain order of the things
In our world, we are to follow, willfully or not',
And like a gust of wind, the 'guilty' word resounds.
...As judges left, the crowd dispersed in silence,
The lame cart carried the cell away,
Only a bald thin woman stood before me
And looked into my eye expectantly.
'Time's running here in circles', I have said
Without really understanding why.
She nodded and then pointed over yonder -
Towards the stage. I turned to look, and saw
A small group of young people dressed identic’lly.
It took me time to realize at last
That they were celebrating what has happened here,
Exulting o'er that blatant outrage.
I knew they yelled, but I couldn't hear their voices,
They had self-righteous looks, but their eyes were blank,
They looked unnatural as wraiths, abominable spectres...
Assuming it was I the living one.
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