Sense Sonnet - Acher

Pardon Peril

A teenaged kid in Arkansas,
Guilty of unarmed robbery.
Jailed a decade under the law.
Imperfect system, he goes free
To Washington State, where alleged,
He murders 4 cops in cold blood.
A bad boy bet that went unhedged?
Ex-governor caught in the flood
Of blame - this guy should still be jailed,
Doing the hundred years from teen.
Then the system would not have failed.
His future would have been forseen.

People grow up committing crimes,
More and more and more of the times.