How To Solve the Gallows Poem Puzzle in Toluca Prison
Inside Toluca Prison, one of the most important locations in the Silent Hill 2 remake, there will be a large number and variety of puzzles to solve. One of these key puzzles, along with the weights puzzle, is essential.
You can access the Toluca Prison morgue by linking these two puzzles. This step is necessary to progress in the game’s story. Once you solve the weights puzzle, you will obtain a lever that will guide you to the ropes, granting you access to the morgue. This is a guide on how to solve the Gallows Poem puzzle in Silent Hill 2.
Where Is This Puzzle Located in Silent Hill 2 Remake?
In the Toluca Prison yard in Silent Hill 2 remake, there’s one of the most complicated and intricate puzzles to solve. This puzzle is the scales puzzle, and in order to solve it completely and access all the areas of the prison, you’ll need to collect different weights.
You can check out our guide for this puzzle, which explains in detail where each weight is and how to solve it entirely.
Once you solve this puzzle, you’ll obtain the execution lever, which you can use to activate the Gallows Poem puzzle, located right behind the weights puzzle in the Toluca Prison yard.
Tip
The upcoming puzzle can be difficult, but keeping some solutions in mind, it can be solved with ease.
Once you activate the execution lever, a wall will appear in front of you, featuring a sculpture of two Pyramid Heads and a man in the center.
This wall will open and reveal six spaces with Roman numerals where you’ll need to complete various poems that are related to the hanging ropes around this area.
How to Solve the Gallows Poem Puzzle in Silent Hill 2
This puzzle’s failure doesn’t matter—you’ll fall into an enemy-filled area and climb back up the ladder to try again. The solution to the poems will vary depending on the difficulty.
The harder the game, the more solutions will be available for each poem. One of the intriguing features of this puzzle in the Silent Hill 2 Remake is its intricate nature, which heavily relies on the player’s personal judgment.
These poems talk about horrendous crimes, and you must judge which one you believe is the most justified—in other words, the poem that you think hides innocence.
Once you’ve chosen, you’ll need to select the Roman numeral of the poem you picked and pull the rope. If it’s correct, you’ll automatically proceed to the morgue; if not, you’ll have to try again.
If the camera focuses on James from behind during the cutscene, it indicates that you selected the incorrect answer. If, in the cutscene, the camera focuses on him from the front as he approaches the rope, you have found the correct number.
Below we will provide the recommended solutions according to the game’s difficulty.
Light Difficulty
| Poems | Solutions |
| Hallowed was the place, This one set ablaze. |
T’was the home of evil, It had to be razed. |
| This one took from others, T’was a sinful deed. |
Stealing not to eat, But to feed his own greed. |
| This one, he did kidnap, His beloved daughter. |
In a fit of anger, Bloody end he brought her. |
| This one broke the lock, To steal, I’ll tell you plain. |
One more place to plunder, One more wrongful gain. |
| This one dared, To take his own mother’s life. |
Did it just for pleasure, Not over a strife. |
| This one clenched his fist, And has pulled no punch. |
Turned against his bully, Turned his brain to mulch. |
In standard and hard difficulties, there will be two possible solutions for each poem. Below is the detailed solution for each:
Standard Difficulty
| Poems | Solutions |
| For your grace I do not plead, For the flames I did set free, Sisters shrieked and children cried, No one made it out alive. |
Though the young ones’ deaths I mourn, Their tormentors are no more, On young souls the nuns did prey, Took their innocence away. |
| I watched them burn, I heard them cry, I felt a soothing warmth inside, It felt so good, I cannot lie, And for my bliss, they had to die. |
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| The wealth of others I did take, The seventh statute I did break, And yet my deeds I don’t regret, I had my reasons, that is that. |
The reason, is I have to say, Was to survive another day, To them, it was a loaf of bread, To me, a cherished step ahead. |
| What were those reasons, you might ask? The truth, allow me to unmask. I see, I crave, I need, I take, ‘Tis all the sense it needs to make. |
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| I took the child, you are quite right, Carried her off into the night, She did not scream, she did not bawl, I was her father, after all. |
Forgive me, child, for I have failed, To save you from her wretched ways, She whom I loved, who gave you life, A monster hiding in plain sight. |
| My only daughter, joy of days, They wanted to take you away, Hush, little baby, and be still, If I can’t have you, no one will. |
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| Once the sun has ceased its reign, I cut through the rusty chain, Pushed the door and snuck within, Filled my pockets to the brim. |
So my guilt is plain to see, I had robbed the pharmacy, Yet I did so not for gain, But so I could ease the pain. |
| I departed with great haste, Leaving not a single trace, Ever faithful to my creed, All is right which feeds my greed. |
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| Mommy dearest, Mommy sweet, Your love for me was so deep, “Why, oh, why?” you shouted out, When my knife pierced your heart. |
You broke my legs, I couldn’t walk, You pulled my teeth, I couldn’t talk, You fed me pills to slow my mind, I took your life ‘fore you took mine. |
| You were, oh, so kind to me, Filled my heart with joy and glee, In the end, it was for naught, “Why, oh, why?”, you ask. Why not? |
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| I waited long, I bid my time, I waited to commit my crime, The man appeared, he saw me not, A bloody end is what he got. |
In truth, he was less man than beast, And on my flesh and soul he’d feast, My will to live he’d try to break, There is so much a man can take. |
| In truth, I did not hesitate, As my blade sealed the poor man’s fate, He knew the rules, they are quite clear, Go against me, your end is near. |
Hard difficulty will kick things up a notch.
Hard Difficulty
| Poems | Solutions |
| Under the veil of nightfall, in the ink of dusk, A blazing inferno engulfs the wooden husk. Screams of the innocent fill the night sky, He who hell let loose now watches them die. |
Death of the blameless, a damnable sin, Wracked with guilt, his soul withers from within, Yet among the pure, the vile also dwelled, Demons dressed in piety, they perished as well. |
| A contorted chill dances on his spine, As their souls fly forth on Thanatos’ sigh. No sign of regret, not a tinge of guilt, But a fiery urge to destroy what God built. |
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| In twilight’s grasp, a thief emerges sly, Through the veils of night, his purpose veiled, awry. His nimble fingers, like whispers they glide, In the goods of others, his needs doth reside. |
With hands trembling, he seizes what he must, A wretched dance, fueled by hunger’s thrust. Poverty’s embrace fuels his misdeeds, Thieving to survive, the barest of needs. |
| His avarice driving every cunning theft, No conscience stirs, no remorse is left. Not a hunger’s pang, nor a desperate need, But a heart consumed with relentless greed. |
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| In shroud of twilight, a tale doth unfold, Where the shadows dance, their secrets are told. A shadowy figure, his motives unclear, Steals his own kin, one he should hold dear. |
A cruel twist of fate, an outcome unsought, The little one perishes, it was all for naught, The kidnapper’s tears his motives reveal, From a monstrous mother the child he did steal. |
| A tragic fruition, a mother’s despair, Her heiress undone by the one she once loved, Forsooth, it was not love that guided his clasp, But a spiteful avarice one struggles to grasp. |
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| In clandestine steps, darkness as his guide, The man ventures deeper, where riches doth hide. An unseen intruder with motives untold, His hands eager to touch, to grab and to hold. |
Amidst the moon’s glow, a desperate truth, The man’s life of pain and in peril, forsooth. Sealed within these walls, his salvation lies, Steal and live on, the ultimate prize. |
| Beneath moonlit guise, a villain’s design, He trespasses where treasures brightly shine. With a selfish hand, with greed as his creed, Claims the spoils, indulging every single need. |
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| A contorted chill dances on his spine, As their souls fly forth on Thanatos’ sigh. No sign of regret, not a tinge of guilt, But a fiery urge to destroy what God built. |
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| With her senses falling, she looks, mouth agape, At the one who forced her spirit to escape. Cold steel pierces vein, a sanguine flood, Gazing back at her, her own flesh and blood. |
‘Twas a twisted fate that forced the man’s hand, A son at mother’s mercy, his life in hell he’d spend. Forsooth, not all killings are ones of ill will, For the choice was clear, ’twas either her or him. |
| Desperation’s grip suffocates the air, The attacker’s past, a tale of despair. A victim turned assailant, a tragic decree, On this night of judgment, pain sets both men free. |
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| In shadows cast, the hunter lies in wait, His violent intent cloaked in a veil of fate. An enigma unfolds, motives undefined, As the prey approaches, their fates intertwine. |
As the spark of life from her eyes did flee, The man held his gaze with wicked glee, An unfeeling sigh the man’s lips doth escape, A thirst for more bloodshed begins to take shape. |
| The victim’s eyes wide with terror and fright, The attacker’s nature now comes to light. Vicious is his cause and marred with dark pride, A show of brute strength, for all to abide. |
That’s it! Following the above instructions, you should hopefully be done with this confusing puzzle.
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