The gift of freedom, precious

  That priceless treasure granted

  To all men as a birthright

  Now squandered without thought

  The day after yesterday

  The day of guilty verdict

  Twenty four short months ago

  Not twenty four long hours

  If only he could return

  If only… oh, if only

  He could have spared a man’s life

  He could have spared his own

  This day, a day of hindsight

  Today a day of regret

  ‘Forgive me for my weakness

  Forgive my mortal sin’

  He takes his tarnished treasure

  He places it in a box

  Buries his worthless freedom

  In an unmarked, shallow grave

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  About The Author

  Stanski is the kind of guy who doesn’t do things by half measures.

  For example, he’s the guy who went to Thailand in 1999, to see in the New Millennium.

  He enjoyed it there so much that he decided to stay on for a while.

  He didn’t return to the UK until October…

  October 2010…!

  Stanski began writing in earnest in 2005 while recovering from a motorcycle accident, in the northern city of Chiangmai, in which he sustained serious head injuries.

  Find Stanski on Facebook

  https://www.facebook.com/stan.ski.9

  More examples of verse by Stanski can be found on his Blog, ‘Elephant Small’

  Crawling Distance

  In Decline

  The Night Jasmine

  The Fourth Millennium

  Hotel 27

  A Fetish For Frustration

  Elephant Small Vol 1

  Elephant Small Vol 2

 
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