Freedom Prison Poems

Bound by walls, we dream of flight,
But freedom lies within, alight....

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“Freedom is just another word for nothin left to lose.
Feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues” ~ Janis Joplin ~

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“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”    ...

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In my place nobody longs to die
but they don’t care to live their “like this”
In my place there’s echoes of silent outcry
enduring deaths slow burning...

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My pixel prison, / parasite of my mind, / tyrant of my time. 

Once upon a time- a letter or a call sufficed.
Now, years vanish...

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My cousin started molesting me at the age of 9. He said, “Don’t worry you’ll be just fine”. 
You told me I was special, said...

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Dodge Penitentiary, what are those voices/
Dodge Penitentiary, losing my mind doing time/
Dodge Penitentiary, where the am I?/
I entered Dodge Penitentiary, hardest of the hard/
My paws...

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this great story is comparable ~ to parables in holy writ...

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I used to enjoy the sunshine, lazy days by the sea
Now the sunshine is a prisoner too, in here with me.

Freedom was just a word,...

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When I pulled open the bag laden with captives
Their eyes breathed a great sigh of relief
Pouring out of the bag like a plague
They scuttled off...

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The bars of my cell are icy cold
I'll never see freedom is what I'm told
My destiny is an outsider looking in
Whenever I see her, she...

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One more time and out the door
I could not ever ask for more

I think we knew it was a crime
But we just had so little...

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I am a prisoner here,
Though I have no bars to contain me,
No chains to restrain me,
Nor any crime to detain me.
My only offense is being...

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My Freedom is,
  Looking at the world,
  with  child-like wonder,
  compassionate loving and
  Spiritual eyes.
     My...

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There are so many trapped
and tortured souls in this 
desolate place.
We are ghosts, screaming for freedom,
darklings, crying for light.
Never sure how to grasp onto
something invisible,
without...

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