Dear Inspector, Why'd You Do it?

 

Watching the men in dreaded black take you away,

I wonder what had made you push to the edge;

To take it too far that the smoke had filled

Your mind and lungs, taking your heart as

A living, beating hostage with its vessels trying to

Save you from the brink of what they would call a death.

I know that saving the one you loved was what you had wanted,

Burning her letter into the fire while you explained why you had done it.

But I think that it’s more than just the power of love that drove

You to the edge of death’s bony hand, cringing as you thought

Of what would of have happened if you would of ran away

And changed your full name without a trace of your very existence.

I think that it was the memories of seeing into the future that

Really spooked you out, drowning out the pictures by the taste

Of that bittersweet drug, the smoke dancing around like
Clouds in the sky passing on by, taking all of the pain away

And taking you into a world of fantasy and a better life.

Yet I also wonder if it was the green liquid that

Took a turn in stealing your heart away,

The fire that spat upon the top of it

Telling you that it would make your visions

Come clearer, also taking you into its eye

Of wishes and illusions that you secretly desired,

Pouring onto your tongue like a cup of tea to a pair of lips.

 

Now that I have concluded my thoughts and theories,

I must go now to blend into this un-thoughtful crowd,

Wondering if life would have been better

If you would have taken that unbroken chapter

In your hands and not another’s…

Then everything would have been fine.

Author's Note

Credit: I have to thank Joseph - Michael for some of this because we were talking about Johnny Depp and his movies that he's been in (I said I wanted to see Sweeney Todd since I had read Joe's Sweet, Sweet Sweeney Todd poem...go read it if you haven't already!..that also inspired this piece as well because this is a few things I'd say to Abberline...).

I'm sorry for the odd line breakage; Ignore it please! And this might be for the Rewrite contest...it depends. I also think that what Abberline did was a smart idea since he would of been followed if would have left, yet it made me sad on how the end of the movie had to end (go see the movie <i>From Hell</i> if you haven't seen it...unless you don't like that kind of movie or not Johnny Depp fan, then whatever.)