Inspired by Susan Zalatan's Poem Those in Prison

By Carlos King



Those in Prison 2
By Carlos King

Responsibility cannot be gained by irresponsible acts of cruelty, love for some cannot emerge as a lasting and beautiful expression from deprivation and degradation, to castrate a person's physical essence due to his incarceration, truly undermines the meaning of justice in the form of his rehabilitation... Pain is pain no matter the cause, you cannot help the abused when you are the cause, he was a victim of your system, so you are the flaw, beating him with your inhumanity is the reason he's raw... your solution has been his death right from the very start, you cannot transformed his pain, when your the reason why he's scarred... your truth is a lie so your facts are disbarred, no longer can you stand because you are the reason he's hard... your not the innocence that you claim, you are the arbiter of the rules that confines his fame, telling yourself that you are doing it for his self interest, but you don't believe in his penitence, you cheat him out of his life for your own self interest, because the measure of his worth can't validate your existence... you are the crouching tiger hidden dragon that eludes his perception, you made him criminal just to hide your deception, got him thinking he's on his own accord, but you are the yellow brick road that has been guiding his steps ever since his ancestors were old, you were the turbulence, the master and the miseducation, you were the hell and the demon that created mass incarceration... for your part is his truth, an extensive prison sentence ever since his youth, you created it and now you want to fix it, ain't that the truth, so make amends and ask for forgiveness is something that you must do... judge not less you be judged first is for all of us who knew, that the greatness of man can come from his suffering and this is always the true, so find his heart and remove his pain, so that he can once again live amongst you, because being humane is a choice we make from the principles that has guided us through... Be That Change!!!

Carlos

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