I just finished the third book in the Detective Galileo series by Keigo Higashino. It is called A Mid Summer’s Equation. Just like in, The Devotion of Suspect X, (click here for full review), one of the important characters is a teen, and another is in her early twenties.
As much as these books are about perfect crimes, cover ups, suspense, twists and the thrilling, convoluted path to figuring out the truth, they are also about the burden on the soul of the perpetrator of a crime committed in a moment of desperation.
This poem was inspired by the books in the Detective Galileo series, particularly the third one, A Mid Summer’s Equation.
The Inner Voice
Ethical Dilemmas are quite inconsiderate
Some smack even those too young to face it,
with shoulders too narrow to bear the weight
of vital decisions that determine their fate
Life altering choices that haunt and chase
far beyond the years of the teenage phase
Lacking the experience to fully comprehend
the consequences that pursue right to the end
In the short term it is tempting
to choose the path that looks easy
No knowing that eventually
the need to be free
forces you to accept responsibility
The survival instincts
of fight and flight
wear themselves out
when without a doubt
the mind accepts
what the heart knows
To surrender to truth
is not one option, but
the only way to free
the soul from misery