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.
I am very interested to know more about what exactly you are running into with regard to this ennobling enterprise. I have much experience with these situations and it's possible I can help. You can also info me by writing to me directly:
Lady Lynne 22 Marlow Ave Toronto M4J 3T9 Ontario Canada
RSS
Dave
-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.
Be cool,cool.
Brockton Rocks too,
Ron
I am very interested to know more about what exactly you are
running into with regard to this ennobling enterprise.
I have much experience with these situations and it's possible
I can help. You can also info me by writing to me directly:
Lady Lynne
22 Marlow Ave
Toronto M4J 3T9
Ontario Canada
ARC / KRC
Lynne