The Epic Of Johnny Wells (Part V)

It's been four years now,

since Johnny has been in prison.

Now he is twenty-one.

He knows that soon,

he will be released.

His time is almost done.

His final week came.

He did not waste it.

He spent it with reading and prayer.

He was not scared,

because he knew,

that Christ would always be there.

It was a very quiet week.

There were no new prisoners,

and there was not one fight.

Everyone was asking about Johnny Wells.

So Johnny ask to be placed out of sight.

The warden agreed.

So they moved Johnny,

to a place where only the guards knew.

It is strange how a person,

can guess exactly,

for the next two days what he would do.

There were no major events.

Nothing special had occurred.

Still, Johnny's spirit told him,

that it could be a whole lot worse.

Finally his last day came.

They offered him a meal that would be his last.

Instead Johnny said, "No thank you.

I would rather fast".

A priest came down to be with Johnny,

but Johnny turned him away.

He did however have one request -

to see the female guard,

whom with he wanted to pray.

The priest overheard the request and was jealous.

Nevertheless, the female guard Johnny befriended came.

As the two started praying,

the female guard began to cry,

as it started to rain.

She stayed with Johnny,

until his final hour,

when they took him to another room,

in another section.

Finally that moment had come,

for Johnny's lethal injection.

Minutes later on the table after not moving,

Johnny Wells was then pronounce dead.

Eventually time went on,

as the earth continued to spin.

To some he will always be known,

as Johnny 'to bad', Wells, or his inmate number,

but the Lambs Book of Life,

says Johnny Wells,

who will never again thirst or hunger.

So goes and so ends the epic of Johnny Wells.

Someday he will be known to others as a myth,

or just a fairy tail.

Still, maybe their are some Johnny Wells -

a truely sad but beautiful fate.

Still, we must all accept Christ,

before it is to late.