untitled 12.11.2011

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this is for my friend who was a kid (age 13 ) when he was locked up, released at age 34. was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and got caught up! more often then not for a black man the punishment does not fit the crime, i see it every day. but all we can do is pray that someday things will change!

untitled 12.11.2011

Trapped in a prison

Within a cell

Walls behind bars

Caged minds

Wondering souls

Animal instincts kick in

Just to survive

 

Anger builds

Degraded lives

Animosity and sorrow

Soulful cries

Endless torture

Days on end

No light at the end of the tunnel

And eternal darkness, Is what most crave

 

Hopelessness, doubt, no self worth

No silver lining, No desire to try, what the hell for

 

No one sees the true man that lies within

No one can see past the appearance

Of the man I had once been.

No one bothers to look deep inside

How much I regret

All the desire I try to hide

 

I have dreams too, would you bother to listen

Or have you past your judgment

Based on my condition.

I know where I come from, and I know where I have been

But it’s MY future I choose to believe in

 

Not your preprogrammed solutions

You shove down my throat

I refuse to be told what I can be

I guess I am the only one who truly sees me

 

I see the man I want to become

In dreams and visions

My future has yet to come.

 

But I know me and what I choose to believe

And that is that I’m a man on who is now been set free

  

Free of the bonds that held me down

Set free of the chains of convicts past

No boundaries are there to keep me still

My choice is my own

I won’t swallow your pill

Of lies and untruths you have chose to create

For I am set free from the ghosts of my past

Set free to be what ever I choose

My futures my own

No matter what I do.

 

You may have locked me up,

And took all those years

But not another day is yours

My fate no longer sealed

 

I am the author for the rest of my life

This is my book, my story

I have chosen to write

My ending may not be clear in my mind

But regardless of the ending

It will be mine!

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cutbanksam commented on untitled 12.11.2011

02-29-2012

A man I used to be best friends with and am still a friend of his has been in prison since 1975 and may never get out. I cannot imagine what daily life is like for him. I do know that the guards are chickenshit people, small people who like to pick on those who must not fight back. I like the way you wrote this and the perspective you wrote it from. You are a very talented writer.

BreeLove

06/19/2012

thank u very much for taking the time to readand comment. much respect. Bree ....

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