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Open Poetry #47

Waste of Life

ChemicalRepose
Member

since 2004-03-28

Posts 102

0 posted 2011-09-27 06:31 PM

The gavel shakes the Earth
like standing on the fault line.
Sentenced to seven years, for minor drug crimes?
I can't begin to describe
how the system has failed,
through my eyes.

The sun sets
only to rise again,
but tomorrow
will only bring
more pain and suffering.

Looking from the outside, in
you have no idea what living within these walls
does to a man.
Degrade me to the point of no return.
Every appeal exhausted,
there is no going home.
So bring forth the guillotine
and execute me for the lies I told,
while a million cops crimes go untold.
A hundred thousand minds
are forced to die,
in a six by eight cell,
no longer alive.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2011-09-27 06:47 PM

"you have no idea what living within these walls
does to a man."

Oh, I beg to differ with you, Waste of Life, you aren't the only person who has looked from the inside out.

~~ Those who are silent are the first to be shot. ~~

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

2 posted 2011-09-29 09:58 AM

A heartbreaking depiction of the hopelessness.

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