Closing Arguments

I stand before this jury today not looking for forgivness, not looking for pity, I stand before you today looking for understanding. I ask you, how can someone truly convict a person of love, for that is the only crime I can be accused of commiting. I have loved a man to the point where it destroyed me. Let me tell you a story. How many times have any of you laid awake in your bed crying at night to the point where you thought you'd stop breathing simply because you missed a smile that much? How many of you have given up your self respect for a man, your own idenity, beacuse you simply thought that is what he wanted? How many of you can truly say that you have felt like years and years have been put into loving someone only to think that you could do better? I have done it all for him, yet there he sits, with a smile on his face, not because he is happy, but because smiles are all he knows, there is no true emotion for this man. I have spent countless nights waiting and wanting to hear some kind of truth come out of his mouth, and all I have heard is what he has wanted me to. So I ask, how can I be convicted of this crime, a crime of loving someone to the point that it drew me this. Where I stand right now, in front of you completly honest, completly open. I did not mean the crime in which I have commited, the crime that led me to break this mans heart. Written January 14th, 2002 © on Jan 14 2002 12:17 PM PST, Chauna   18 • 0 • 8