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Life Sentence Poems - Poems about Life Sentence

We are Spiritual Convicts Serving a Life Sentence
We're criminals from heaven, committing spiritual crime. Disobeying the Creator with our body and mind. His law was made plain to us right from the start. Still if we allow Him, he'll write it on our hearts. But I'd like to say, please keep this thought in mind. The earth is a Rock and we're all doing time. If we don't...

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Categories: life sentence, abuse, addiction, bible, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life Sentence on Death Row
Back and forth the monkey paces Alone is his small backyard cage. He did not make his cramped cage, But the small cage makes him. Far away, he sees children in a park Running free and laughing. He also sees birds flying free And singing far from his small cage. But in his barred cramped world,...

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Categories: life sentence, anxiety, depression, freedom, loneliness,
Form: Free verse



Life Sentence
Holding my head in my hands for two years. Fooled me so often, don’t know him in mirrors. He’s crude and forgotten and fattened with fear. Surely, I’m better than what I see here. Is there a place where disgrace is best faced? Chased family and friends in case they embrace Me, erasing escaping in the first place just tames. See...

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Categories: life sentence, confusion, emotions, loneliness, mental
Form: Free verse
Life Sentence
What is a life sentence? Is it when a judge castes years upon your life? Locked away behind medal bars, With no chance of parole. Or is it being born without question? Your fate is in your own hands. Whatever your wrongdoing is, Comes back to you tenfold. A life sentence, With out the chance of parole, Is the very life sentence you are living...

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Categories: life sentence, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stolen Loves Life Sentence
This is my true story. I will tell to you in rhyme, when i worked at a psychiatric hospital, i was only seventeen year old at the time. when one old patient told me the reason she was locked away, she had given all her love to a soldier, for her sin she was sentenced to stay. Every wrinkle is a year of...

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Categories: life sentence, cry, heartbreak, judgement, loss,
Form: Rhyme



Life Sentence
After the diagnosis, each moment a dream of years and then months and days in between After the surgery, the dream became real time again captured —the sentence repealed (The New Room: December, 2021)...

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Categories: life sentence, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life Sentence
We are all serving a life sentence of solitary confinement, imprisoned within the boundaries of our own skin....

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Categories: life sentence, perspective, prison,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Life Sentence
The needle slides in Like a petrified snake The dope shot in, Time is a fake But it's his break. Oblivion sets in. Content he dreams Of far off misty lands sweet musk, delicious tastes. Oh heavenly dope, how it redeems! Suddenly he wakes. There's no one near him to care. No one to kiss with love so rare. Around is silence, Deadly and bare He wipes away a...

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Categories: life sentence, drug,
Form: Free verse
Life Sentence
life sentence I can’t go on with my life in addiction How can I ever have any kind of relations A week a month a year I really have no idea It’s all the not knowing That’s stops life growling You build it all up begin to restore All the love and respect from your family...

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Categories: life sentence, addiction, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Life Sentence
Life Sentence American picked up at Cambridge, Astonishedly could not explain it. Was he guilty? No doubt. He ran off at the mouth, And utterly killed the King's English....

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Categories: life sentence, culture, humor, language,
Form: Limerick
Life Sentence
All my mind sees, Is what you pray yours won't have to; The things avoided, with routine to distract you. The sick and twisted nature of mankind, The space,  the earth,  and any creatures divine, The plagues,  the wrath,  the mindset of suicide, But Most importantly, what of when we die?. I beg the stars all to unite, I hope for day,  in this...

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Categories: life sentence, bible, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Where a Life Sentence Should Be For Life - Emotive Write
I hope you rot in hell In your prison cell They should throw away the key You should NEVER be set free You were in a position of trust Where you satisfied your lust For you brutally defiled Many an innocent child You blamed your ‘immaturity’ For robbing children of their purity I hope you rot in hell In your prison cell They should throw away the...

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Categories: life sentence, abuse, children, how i
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Life Sentence
When the State said she needed a home and would I help her out with her meds I said yes though I had some grave doubts and they never mentioned a life sentence. When the doctor said she had fetal alcohol our life was paused to grow grim. I said wait, need to check with spouse and three boys we already claimed to love...

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Categories: life sentence, addiction, depression, family, grief,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Eternal Life Sentence
Lord Jesus Christ is my number one love no one or nothing else can compare He is the greatest lover of all one so beautiful yet exceedingly rare Jesus has loved me from eternity past promising to do so forever more He indeed is fairest of ten thousand lovers together heavenly we'll soar What a sentence to be given for a blessing of a...

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Categories: life sentence, god, jesus, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Life Sentence
Dear freedom, your sweet innocent voice seems Now like a distant echo, lost in the wind. Hopes lost in a set of broken dreams, With heavy chains, to your heart of stone pinned. Day by day, night by night, without an end in sight, Tortured by the ravaging beak of time, flying With wings of solit'de, displaying its might, And hatred-filled...

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Categories: life sentence, allusion, bird, death, deep,
Form: Sonnet

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