incarceration

Juneteenth Day

No need to tell me
that I am free
As still I sit here
In these chains

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Isolation

Isolation is not good for no one
Isolation is the killer of affection
One against another grows out of
a detachment born of a separation
born from misunderstanding.
Isolation kills our humanity…

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Is This Home?

Is this prison,
or is this a cage?
Is this anger,
or is this rage?

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Freedom

Freedom is the most beautiful thing
I took for granted,
She was once in my life but then she vanished.
I ended in a cell cold and lonely,
I felt stranded,
feeling like what happened?

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Waiting

I’m waiting for a decision from the judge,
which could come any day,
I feel like it’s been longer than 31 and a half years,
More like forever and a day.

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