I wasn't like most people in our small community. I was the only one who dared to question the fine line between right and wrong, to ask if there would not be a time where breaking a law could be forgiven.
For example, murder here is illegal, and the one who took the life of another is sentenced to death with no second thought. It's kind of ironic, the penalty for taking someone's life is for your life to be taken from you. It seems the only time that the laws are changed a bit to make an allowance for the murder of another human being. Each person over the age of five who is able to must attend the execution.
But, it is the newest case that troubles me, for it brings forth a color that few know. I call it the grey area, the area between black and white. The woman who was subject to have her sentence carried out today had killed a man who had pulled a knife on her seven-year old child.730Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHueFtWPoT
But murder was murder, and grey was something that didn't exist here. To even mention such a thing would be blasphemy, but I see it, I see the grey that makes up the woman.
But, there is no such thing, only black and white. It was something we have always been taught. The only two colors in existence were the two colors that govern our life.
But, what about that strange grey, the color that wasn't dark enough to be black, but was too dark to be white? It seemed to only make itself see whenever there was a case when what was right didn't exactly feel right anymore. And, the older I got, the more visible grey was. Stealing was wrong, and a person who stole should be black, but she was only trying to feed her children, who were starving. to me, she was grey. The man who was the towns executioner-he should be black, but he too was grey. And sometimes those who were suppose to be white were grey. Our president was grey, sometimes even black, the news man on the tv switched between the three colors.
Everyone said there was only two colors-black and white. I however knew there was a third color that truly didn't fit any of the other two colors. And, who knows, perhaps there are even more colors, if only we find the and translate them into a meaning we can understand.
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