The Priest, The Murderer
To parish members
no doubt he was considered saintly
a good priest
but beneath his cover of being a priest
he was a rapist and a murderer
in 1969 he raped and murdered a 25-year-old woman
a devout member of the Catholic church
he escaped justice for over 50 years
until he left the priesthood
and was arrested for the crime in 2016
and sent to prison for life
and died behind bars
Bob Boyd
Unfortunately, unlike many of my poems, this one isn’t fictional