It’s only murder after all.

You deny it of course,

you will reject the charges brought

and laid down at your defeated door

and hide behind the badge

of office and rank, you will draw

a smokescreen veil to further assist

the cover-up as the whispers

become louder and more vociferous,

that demand your head,

stopping short of a silver platter, why waste

the family

heirlooms as you wasted

the families, destroyed lives

and smeared a city

and all because you were able to.