Eight-line Poems 2

Fingerprints

Fingerprints

Betrayed by the whorls of their own individuality
imprinted with the marks of their crime
these patterns pointing fingers at perpetrators
resolving to self confession in time.

Oh, how ironic that the means of squeezing the trigger
should now be the witness sublime
and all alibis rendered suspect and false
in these admissions of presence and crime.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abcb dbeb
For Express It In Eight, 04.02.25
Prompt: Two fingerprints holding hands.