TrustHow can True trust Faith when lies begin to escape,
You are the reason why I hide my face with a Smile or a Cape,
Because I can't forget what you Took and what you keep Taking,
My Heart keeps on breaking daily, that is why I am Inhaling,
These Drugs I Breath,
I just can't Believe,
Life is full of...
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Categories:
prison, abuse, addiction, butterfly, child
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Evin PrisonKhaled was a bodybuilding champ in Iran
A photo shows a smiling and very strong man
Then in Evin Prison, at the mercy of nasty folk
His spine fractured, kidneys failed, heart was harmed, leg was broke.
Evin is a bad place, 113 degrees and no A.C.
I'm sure you can think of better places to be
One woman tells us...
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Categories:
prison, abuse, courage, evil, freedom,
Form: Lyric
Milton Creek Election WeekJudge Horne issued a decree that elections take place this week
For the positions of mayor and sheriff in the town of Milton Creek
It had now been nearly four years and was somewhat overdue
Some known names were mentioned and some nobody knew.
Rumour had it John Scultz of the Cactus Ranch was running for mayor
It was also...
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Categories:
america, conflict, prison,
Form: Narrative
Who will hold her exhaustion when it gets too heavyExhaustion was a burden she would always have to carry
A lingering shadow that gave her no peace
Even haunting her in her sleep
Her most notable feature
Was her eye bags so heavy
They begged to be heard
Screamed to be released
Hoping someone will save her from the abyss
Of Exhaustion
Tired from a life of always running
Away...
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Categories:
prison, depression, discrimination, mental health,
Form: Free verse
The prison he calls homeHis mind was an abyss
Of emotions
And endless questions
Of the world around him
He wasn't much of a speaker
But he was definitely a thinker
His mind was a safe place
Where he could speak freely
Without being harmed
He hated the outside world
He was scared if he stepped outside
He was afraid the racists might strike
So instead he...
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Categories:
prison, discrimination, mental health, mental
Form: Free verse
We built their prisons from their own bloodTheir blood was the poison that would kill them
Their presence blinding
That's why they hate them
They come too close and try to touch them
But they didn't know that we are the sun
That trying to block out the sun
Would become their biggest problem
Actions have consequences
And we were their karma
The one thing they...
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Categories:
anger, discrimination, prejudice, prison,
Form: Free verse
Time lost is actually time stolenHe was barely an adult when he was entered into the system
He was an educated law abiding citizen
But due to the fact he was black
It was sympathy they lacked
He faxed a lifetime of imprisonment
And an impending death penalty
All because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time
His only crime
Was being...
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Categories:
prison, color, discrimination, innocence, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
prison, school,
Form: Free verse
Nick Knack Paddy Whack
Paddy was a hit man
for the Irish Mob
hired to be slick
and do a whack job
but he didn't have the knack
or know the trick
without being caught
and put in the nick
behind bars
but not the sort one might think
where a few jars
may be bought and he did so love a drink
more than one too many
was his undoing
the cause...
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Categories:
drink, fun, humorous, prison,
Form: Rhyme
prison for lifehe calls me a name
I stomp his foot
she calls me a name
I pick up my hammer
smash her to smithereens
Her mistake?
standing on my last nerve
after a day of name-calling
prison for life?
worth it....
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Categories:
prison, murder,
Form: Free verse
Penitentiary Clowns
The warden's dog steals every snack,
The inmates plot to get them back.
A daring heist for honey buns,
'Til Fluffy wins, and off he runs!
The gym’s a war of flexing might,
Larry claims he’s built for flight.
He jumps, he flaps, he hits the ground,
The...
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Categories:
prison, cool, crazy, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
The OG of the Penitentiary
Steel gates whisper his name in the wind,
Legends bow, their bravado dimmed.
A gaze like thunder, a voice like stone,
King of the shadows, he stands alone.
No chains could bind the fire inside,
No walls could tame his ruthless pride.
Even the hardest, the ones who don’t...
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Categories:
prison, character, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
untitledthe inevitability of fire:
union.
i do not want to be alone.
what is pain?
...
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Categories:
prison,
Form: Free verse
cruel masterssometimes there are cruel masters
who sneer and inflict pain for no reason at all.
i do not know where they come from — why do they come at all — or where they go
and so i am always afraid.
today i awoke and felt anxious and sad
i wondered, “will it get worse?”
the sunlight is pure truth
and...
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Categories:
loneliness, prison,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
humor, prison,
Form: Monoku
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