incarceration

Changing Thoughts

By DK As I sit here tired, alone, but peaceful in my cage It gives me time to reflect and to let go of the rage. I see so many…

Inner Strength

By BH As a product of his environment, He could not read nor write, Designed and programmed for destruction, Thoughts of suicide haunted him at night. As a product of…

Fertile Concrete

By GL Lead and fire, erupted out of the stainless . . . steel weapon of humane destruction Lead and fire has left a heart broken; a napkin soaked in;…

If

By JMA If prisons Lease our liberty If seas Rent our shores If silence Hustles penny songs If power Purchases helplessness Then into this world I step renewed To float…

A Father’s Long Walk with Reality

By SH Smacked by an enormous impact of shame Brain drained from searching unchartered memories Those times that will never be sitting in the depths of me Consumed by my…