This Time

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A poem about prison. One of my first ones.

This Time

Just lying here in this cold dark cell.

I reflect on fourteen years of hell.

Now I'm facing fifteen more

for stepping through that outlaw door.

Looking back at all the pain.

Why didn't I just use my brain?

And someday parole will come for me.

But then how old will my kids be?

So here and now I make up my mind.

To go home a different man this time.

 

Phillip G. Inman

2005

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ApaqRasgirl commented on This Time

07-28-2010

that was wonderful dear friend. keep that light in your heart and you will come back a better person, never give up hope.......great write. thanks for sharing love asha

philjonesin

07/28/2010

I am home, have been for almost four years. thank you for reading, commenting and adding me as a friend.

Mandi commented on This Time

07-28-2010

I respect your honesty, Phil. But, for a different childhood, who knows what may have been my future. After reading your profile , I guess this is a true to life poem, is it not? I like the rythym and the rhyming, the lines make perfect sense and it isn't flowery but down to earth language. I am grateful that you chose not to use the course language of your environment. That shows you have a little class . Everyone needs to have a little class. It makes your poetry open and available to all levels of readers that way.

philjonesin

07/28/2010

thank you I do use some vulgarity in some of my writing. But I attempt not too use it often.

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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