The Convict Part 6

Guilty?
The judge lied.
The whole world is
Guilty of my guilt now;
One down

My son
Could not speak
Because he knows
That my innocence rays
Like sun

This place
Holds nothing
Like my city -
Like sinners paradise
I'm in

The bars,
Walls and fence
Doesn't make the jail 
The feeling that you're there
Makes it

Prison,
Survival
Ain't for the weak
To live you'd have to seek
It here

These years
Diaries,
Newfangled thought...
My life seems distorted
And gone.

Waiting
For my last
Days as tenant
Of the damned and silenced
To come...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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