Makes me sad every single time that I read it, even when you don't even think I care about you as much as I really do. Almost 3:00 AM and this is what I'm doing much of the time, trying to be closer to you than I ever have been to anyone. I don't ever ask you about it because I know that it hurts you enough to think about it. I know you have feelings. You don't have to be a monster to do something that society deems monstrous. Child molestation is far more of an atrocity than anything you have ever done, I promise you this. I miss you so much. Just trying to survive right now. xo
When we are kids everything is pure and exciting. Depending on thseeds we sow, adulthood can be beautiful also. Patience is the key. A new reality check!
I'm feeling this Quatrain/rhyme scheme. Intense and personal. Your mentality is on display, along with your love... Truthwriter? Keep burning fam! Keith Papyrus
Zakee, Thank you for giving me the URL to your blog. This is a profound piece. I am grateful every Saturday morning when I go in to San Quentin to do our VOEG group together that I am doing it with you: you are always thoughtful, caring deeply, straightforward and clear. You have a depth of experience that you are constantly giving to all kinds of people, including these people you have been training from outside the prison. It's an honor and a privilege to be working with you. I often have that sinking feeling, amounting sometimes to a sense of horror, as I go in to the prison through those heavy clanging metal doors, and yet when I come out I have been feeling exhilarated or elated almost every time as a result of our group. Dave
Keith...this has to be, HANDS DOWN, the best poem I have come across on here! This poem describes EXACTLY how my childhood was, even down to the peanut butter and fluff sandwiches! The carefree days of being a child and not having a care in the world! Thanks for taking me back to those days! NICELY DONE AND GREAT WORK! BRAVO!
That place looks like hell, use it to inspire yourself to be better, stronger and smarter. You can be anyone you want to be and that inmate number does not define you or what you can be.
I admire your strength and your ability to forgive the way you do. Being a person who has stayed by someones side who committed and unthinkable crime for years on end only to be disappointed from the person they became in prison, I can honestly say that people in this day and age need to be much more forgiving of not just people but society. How do we blame a child who grows up in the system with no real love or person who cares for them, with a genetic history of being predisposed to drugs or mental illness? Then that kid murders someone because they are not taught the value in human life. is that the child's fault? should we even be looking for someone to blame? or should we be looking for someone to forgive? after reading this i think i am going to be more willing to focus on forgiving instead of blaming because not all people who did bad things are bad people:) Rest easy Zakee and thank you for a motivational way to look at forgiveness! -E
Thank you for writing what you do, please know I don't always reply but I read them more than once and value what you're capturing about the human spirit.
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Thank you for writing what you do, please know I don't always reply but I read them more than once and value what you're capturing about the human spirit.
Be cool,cool.
Brockton Rocks too,
Ron