incarceration

Welcome to the Fort

By RW Let me tell you about a place I know Filled with broken dreams and lost hope A place if visited within your dreams Would turn nightmarish by thoughts…

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Untitled

By VC Sit in a cell 24/7/365 and tell me if you can think straight Boxed in/locked in/no family/no friend Just a beginning/no end/can’t breathe/no air Mind gone with the…

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The Tears I Cry

By DWS Look in my eyes & you’ll see the tears I cry As I lie back on my bed The vivid memories of my family & I flow through…

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Smile

By GD I was still a juvenile and convicted as a child Though sentenced as an adult But still I smile… I think about my reality and realize just how…

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Surrounded/Rodeado

By LV Surrounded by concrete walls. Surrounded by an immense feeling of solitude. Surrounded by concrete walls that don’t distance me from reality. Surrounded by one-thousand-and-one dreams – that are…

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