<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523470" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Not guilty by the hour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Guilty or not guilty’, he asks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She says, ‘Not guilty by the hour’<br>Her face looking very sour<br>Not guilty by the day<br>If you look at things my way</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stand here a bruised flower<br>Helplessly ripped of all her power<br>Dreading been subjected<br>To another punishing shower</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If today I am jailed<br>Then society has failed<br>It is he who should have been long nailed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So she says, ‘Not guilty by the hour’<br>Her face looking very sour<br>Not guilty by the day<br>If you look at things my way</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many a time I have cried<br>Knowing how hard I’ve tried<br>A victim of domestic violence<br>Dismissed by all as nonsense<br>Ignoring my pleas by pretence<br>Enduring yearly beatings and mental abuse<br>Even my public cries seemed to be of no use<br>As I stand before you all wrongly accused</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With my very own hands<br>I have taken away a life<br>Without the use of a knife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I’m not guilty by the hour<br>Her face looking very sour<br>Not guilty by the minute<br>If you take your time and sit<br>Examine every fact without prejudice bit by bit<br>Not guilty by the day<br>If you look at things my way</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For with the drunkenness of a violent man<br>Sprung the madness of an innocent woman<br>Yet I profess to be hundred percent human</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright 2006 - Sylvia Chidi</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sylvia+Chidi">Sylvia Chidi</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523470" data-title="Not guilty by the hour de Sylvia Chidi" data-description="‘Guilty or not guilty’, he asks She says, ‘Not guilty by the hour’ Her face looking very sour Not guilty by the day If you look at things my way I stand here a bruised flower Helplessly ripped of all her power Dreading been subjected To ..."></div> </div> </div>

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