CODE OF SILENCE

A POEM ABOUT A GREAT MAN WHO UNDERWENT A GREAT WRONG X

ALAN TURING WAS A GENIUS, A MATHEMATICIAN

AND A CODE BREAKER OF WORLD WAR TWO

HE WAS ABLE TO DECIPHER THE ENIGMA CODES

AND TO DO WHAT FEW OTHERS COULD EVER DO

HE CONTRIBUTED TO THE WINNING OF THE WAR

HE WAS BRILLIANTLY CLEVER AND BRAVE

A COMPUTER PIONEER WITH SKILLS AT HAND

SKILLS ENGLAND NEEDED & HE SELFLESSLY GAVE

AT THE END OF THE WAR HIS WORK WAS PRAISED

HE WAS CALLED A HERO, GIVEN HONOURS GALORE

HE WAS HELD IN SUCH VERY HIGH REGARD

AND HIS WORK WAS THE PRIDE OF THE WAR

IN 1952 HE WAS ARRESTED FOR A SO CALLED CRIME

HIS OFFENCE WAS DARING TO LOVE ANOTHER MAN

HE WAS INJECTED WITH FEMALE HORMONES,

AS PART OF A CORRCETIONAL PLAN

MR TURING WAS EXPERIMENTED ON LIKE AN ANIMAL

HE WAS STRIPPED OF HIS MEDALS AND HIS DIGNITY

HE WAS TREATED LIKE A FREAK OF NATURE

AND FROM THEN ON HE WOULD NEVER FEEL FREE

ALAN TURING TOOK HIS LIFE IN THE YEAR 1954

HE BIT INTO AN APPLE LACED WITH CYANIDE

HE WAS 41 YEARS OF AGE, A TORMENTED SOUL

TOO WORN OUT TO DENY HIMSELF OR HIDE

IN 2009 MR TURING WAS POSTHUMOUSLY PARDONED

THE PRIME MINISTER APOLOGIZED FOR BRITAIN'S SHAME

HE TOLD THE WORLD THAT MR TURING WAS WRONGED

AND THAT HE WANTED TO REINSTATE ALANS GOOD NAME

ALAN TURING DIED A HAUNTED AND BROKEN MAN

HE DIED BECAUSE HE WAS DENIED THE RIGHT TO LIVE HIS WAY

ARRESTED, MEDICALLY CASTRATED AND STRIPPED OF HONOUR

A HERO OF THE WAR REWARDED WITH A PERSECUTION FOR BEING GAY!!

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WOW!!! Now this one is powerful and has such depth,
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Amazing rhyme scheme and flow.