✍️💞NaPoWriMo 2024 – April’s write a poem a day💞✍️ Day 20💞✍️20/04/24

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Our optional prompt for the day challenges you to write a poem that recounts a historical event. In writing your poem, you could draw on your memory, encyclopedias, history books, or primary documents. If you’re interested in a little research, you might find interesting this collection of letters written during the American Civil War, or this collection of primary documents concerning South Sea voyages. Or perhaps you might find something of interest in digging through Europeana, an online clearinghouse of digitized materials from cultural institutions across Europe.

Happy writing!



THE EPITOME OF EVIL

He takes his secrets to the grave.
He remains the epitome of evil.
She was the most reviled woman in Britain
for her evil acts of torture and murder.
The Moors Murderers so, called 
because
of their heinous crimes - the murders
of five children aged 10 to 16 in 1966 to 1968.

Finally caught because Myra Hindley's brother-in-law
reported Ian Brady to the police after witnessing 
the final victim's murder; the police 
soon realised that 
Hindley was as involved as Brady.

They were sentenced to life imprisonment,
and while Hindley petitioned for her release.
Brady did not want to be released .
The two of them finally admitted to the last two 
murders after twenty years of incarceration

They both offered to locate where the bodies
were buried, but only one lot of remains were
found, on Saddleworth Moors,
which shattered 
the lives of their victims' families, causing more pain, heartache, and grief.

Myra Hindley was never released from prison.
She died, aged 60, in 2002 there was no public funeral.
Ian Brady was moved from prison into the high-security
Ashworth Hospital following his diagnosis as
a psychopath in 1985, where he died aged 79 in 2017.

Although many tried to understand them both.
Their notoriety is what lives on and the people who
are serving life sentences are the victims' families.
We, as a society should worry that such evil intentions 
can and do, even today, live amongst us.

©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2024