Dear Parole Board
I wasn’t supposed to be here
Do you know the dark I was thrown in
the dark that I had to inhabit
the darkness that overcame me
I wasn’t supposed to be here
not some place so deeply dark and dystopic
where I was expected to come out better on the other side
while you sit back in your chairs looking at me
hoping I quiver beneath your downward gaze
peering into me
seeing nothing but khakis
wanting me to tell you a script that doesn’t suit the journey I trekked
just to give you a reason to grant me my freedom
a freedom which my years and journey have long since earned
even now, sitting in this seat, I wasn’t supposed to be here
but you don’t know the half
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