I do not own Harry Potter or Spoon River Anthology.
CARADOC DEARBORN
(January 1949-presumed dead December 1977)
Like many I wanted to be the hero.
Even in death, I would seek valor.
While spilling blood, I planned to proclaim
My creed and my mission, downed like a martyr.
I planned out elaborate deaths,
Knowing exactly how to fall, to speak, to lie;
Rehearsing the pinnacle scene.
I didn't expect, when I went for that walk,
That I would end up attacked, but I was.
I was not killed on the spot, but taken away,
My death hidden from all public view.
I did not get to speak my parting words;
I did not proudly go down.
I was never found; my body remains
Thrown in a ditch, dead of starvation.
Where was my grand martyr's death?
I died for a cause, but no one heard.