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        The sentence, no matter
        how short, can never be
       revoked, once verbalised
     in public, there is no parole,
       reprieve, nor redemption.

        Etched letters carved into
         tree trunks bare witness,
        ending up the epitaphs by
        those who scribe fleeting
        feelings, prone to change.

     Indelible tattoos, become the
      branded insignias of authors
    who chose to stain the papyrus
       with what will become their
             literary benchmarks.