Frankie Quinn with a poem from his book Open Gates.
Tom Williams
Williams walks a dead man.
Freedom begrudged by
Fifty-three years of incarceration
In a barbed wire grave.
Fifteen heads point towards Crumlin’s
Unforgiving road,
Names forgotten,
Yours rebellious still.
♜ ♞
Pierrepoint’s noose couldn’t strangle what
Lives within you.
Many people have walked your road
Gaining strength to overcome your
Hangman’s faithful friends.
⏩ Frankie Quinn is a former republican prisoner who is now a community activist. He is the author of Open Gates, a book of poetry.
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