A Fallen King

by Kelly D

Traitors deserve treason,

As it went in the United States;
But for some reason one did not,
for he had reached the gates of heaven.

Gone he was as soon as his empire fell,
Hidden in Virginian safe house;
Engulfed by the cries of a fallen country,
Those cries for mercy, for sorrow most with grief.

But he sat oblivious, recalling the struggle,
The struggle of hunger, of pain, of death;
The sounds f shots ringing throughout the still air,
But one shot ended it all.

The cowards own shot ended himself,
As his foe, the mighty Lincoln lay under the earth rested forever;
And finally Davis joined him and they watched his kingdom,
Derelict and left to the hands of the Northern victors.

Even through his loss some see victory,
He fought for a cause for a reason;
Even though it was a lost cause and the victor was obvious from the start,
He had a reason and for that he is respected by few, if not many.