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If Writing Is a Crime

If writing is a crime 
I will write on my jailers prison walls 
Until my bare nails bleed
Till Deaf and Blind
The truth beneath the words I find 
Will bind me longer
Than the solitude of any walls 
You place before me
Because life got to me before the

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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