Salem

Secrets lie in the shadows

Waiting to be discovered

Spirits still wander the earth

They cry for help

All things appear in the light of day

Even those purposefully kept in the dark

Thou shall not covet

Yet they did

Lands resources money spouses

Taverns and inns

All things appear in the light of day

Even those purposefully kept in the dark

In the name of God they took

From the widowed the strange

Outcast unmarried women and deformed

Whomever did not follow the puritan way

All things appear in the light of day

Even those purposefully kept in the dark

Twenty granite bench markers on unhallowed ground

Etched with the names and last words of the accused

Damned in life and death

I sit on the bench  

 Listen to their spirit’s whisper

All things appear in the light of day

Even those purposefully kept in the dark

The graves of the accusers look upon twenty condemned

May the accused disturb their eternal rest

History and ghost will haunt till the truth be told

Nineteen where hanged

One was pressed

Countless others accused tortured and died awaiting trial

Did it rid the world of ill and woe

May their deaths continue to curse the self-righteous