Criminal (to Bean)

~ Harlan Didrickson 

When you left
the first time 
it was punishment 
penance of sorts
left to pray
begging for mercy 
and an end 
when you left
this last time 
it was forgiveness 
peace of sorts
my being paroled 
of the crimes
from the jail 
of you and 
into the world 
of my freedom 
still a criminal 
marked as such