Eight-line Poems 2

Crooked

Crooked

And what indeed are laws
but society’s claws
protecting just the rich
while I am in the ditch?

So I steal and borrow
my desires to follow
my god’s the same as theirs
ensuring still my share.


Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb syllables 6 per line
For Express It In Eight, 04.03.25
Prompt: Write a poem from the perspective of a criminal.