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Prison Door

January 26, 2020 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

you!

I know your truth

I live inside your labyrinth of secrets

clever the walls you’ve set up to hide

yea you withhold just as much guilt from innocence as I

projecting your cloak of iniquities upon the labelled and lesser

self righteous in your makeup

you pretend to be this line of salvation and wreckage

this boundary between good and evil

a line of scrimmage for justice and criminals

protecting those that have been wronged

by the wrong

as if they too were never wronged

though you are built on this standard of correction

but more like a base line of opposition

the wars going on outside of you

are just as bad as the ones going on inside of you

but the world inside of you

is but a microcosm of the world outside of you

pretending to be this barrier between the civilized

and the savages

protecting the priveleged

from the indigent

facading as a moral platitude of righteousness

keeping the harmed safe from harmony

though the idea of you erects itself high above reproach

your moral compass has long since been broken

mirroring the fragmented sounds that occupy you

your par agonize lines of justice are made up

fabricated by a false sense of security

and it’s discriminating qualifiers of-

the right

and the wronged

life inside you has lost its humanity purpose and worth

though you find worth

monetarily at least

or you’d too, have no purpose

because you’ve showed as much that

humanity is but a blurred line

a clear line that you draw.

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Prose of a Con

Prose of a Con is a collection of Russell Wardlow’s prose and poetry written entirely behind bars. Through writings on family, spirituality, freedom, love, justice, redemption, and vulnerability, Russell seeks to show the humanity and hope of individuals like himself who are incarcerated.

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