User blog:Memories Afloat/The Hanging Tree

Are you, are you

Coming to the tree

They strung up a man

They say who murdered three

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it be

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree

Are you, are you

Coming to the tree

Where dead man called out

For his love to flee

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it be

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree

Are you, are you

Coming to the tree

Where I told you to run

So we'd both be free

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it be

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree

Are you, are you

Coming to the tree

Wear a necklace of rope

Side by side with me

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it be

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree

Are you, are you

Coming to the tree

Where I told you to run

So we'd both be free

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it be

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree

Are you, are you

Coming to the tree

Where they strung up a man

They say who murdered three

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it be

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree

Are you, are you

Coming to the tree

Where dead man called out

For his love to flee

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it be

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree

07/02/2017

12:00 A.M., Thursday

A man woke up, the Peace Keepers were probably looking for him. He sighed, looking at his wife, who was sleeping soundly. He would be hanged the moment he was found.. They were getting closer. He woke up his wife and told her to run to the Hanging Tree. She obeyed without complaint, she knew what her husband had done. The Peace Keepers entered his home and captured him, dragging him to said tree. They called the whole of District 12 to watch the hanging. His wife was sobbing, he tried to keep his composure and told his wife to run so that she didn't have to see it. She fled. The man was hanged; alone and without his love.

Days later, his wife was hanged because she'd been married to the man. Their bodies hung together on the same tree, for eternity.