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I spoke to an Angel

November 2, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

How channeled

We wake, every day, safe, to a stained forever in mornings

I just spoke with an angel

That lives with faith, every day, ordained by her way, yet just lost some feathers from mourning

and still

Before the sun rays, bake her face, she places her fate in adorning

A God

That she praises, while amazed by his grace, as she prays like a saint, for patience through her aches as

She’s soaring

What I am saying is…

Even though she’s an angel, she goes through the same pain that we all feel in our life

Growth is a painful process that she endures and embraces through her faith in Christ

Her belief in a plan and purpose, helps her weather the pain beneath her surface, so she, even weakened to

Her knees, speaks that she believes joy will come through her mourning

So every day that we wake, maybe we all should embrace a belief strong enough to chase, so we can all

Taste that everlasting joy in the morning

I just spoke with an angel…

The lessons I still learn and love I still see even in your grief, amazing…

Filed Under: Love, Mercy, Spirit

Misery

October 15, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

Turn your back on me

Run away from me 

Run to him 

Run back to me

Turned my back to you-walk away from you

Ran into my room 

Ran into your picture 

I picked up the phone 

“Can’t be alone”

You never slept 

You stayed up waiting 

“Misery Loves Company”

Filed Under: Trauma

Long Distance Love

October 3, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

How can you feel you’ve lost what you have
Yet never feel like you ever had what you lost
The paradox of love distance relationships
Long distance love
How can any real love be distant
Or be explained by the length of separation
When love is the desire to be one with
Not to be with one

Filed Under: Love, Trauma

Atonement 

October 3, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

I’ve spent so much time trying to atone 

A lot of things I’ve toned down 

I’m not perfect, and yet you still first, see my tone

Can you even feel the pain in my tone

Or are you tone deaf

I pick up the phone – no dial tone. 

Filed Under: Love, Mercy, Trauma

Through It All

September 19, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

All of the things I’ve went through 

Now I can barely see through my window 

Sealed doors will never let the wind through 

No air and alone 

Sometimes I think if the wind has been through

The things I went through 

But through it all, I’ll still get through

Filed Under: Mercy, Spirit, Trauma

Son’s Day- Sunday

September 13, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

You’ll probably never know, maybe one day

But I saved blocks of time and space

Hours of thoughts and memories

Nights of dreams and sleeplessness

Plenty of ink and paper

All for you…

Antagonistically the amount of buttons we push throughout our lifetime-

I have devoted as much time for love,

Countless time and an infinite amount in tow I saved –

A space, thought, memory, daydreams, pen and paper

But most importantly, a day

To infinitely press your mom’s buttons

Just to get to my son on Sunday.

Filed Under: Love, Mercy, Spirit

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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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