Can you hear my cry?

Can you see my eyes?

I am calling out to you…

 

Broken and innocent

My life snatched up

Ripped by angry jaws

Justice roars in my ears

 

No way to escape

This sea of unchanging white

Set in their ways

Like stone.

They cannot hear.

 

Wisdom is to know the time:

To sit still,

To listen,

To rest

To let go

 

Behind these bars I lie,

It’s what they’ve asked of me.

But I lie for truth

The hard road I’ve chosen

 

Truth

As plain as innocence in a child’s eyes

But childhood escapes me

So they are blind, staring into the chocolate brown

Of mine

 

Time after time

Thin glass windows of hope

Shatter in front of me

Behind, grey walls stand firm

 

And tonight,

Who emerges from the shadows

To kill me?

Guards, gangs, injustice, darkness?

 

I know not what the shadows bear, I fear the black night approaching

 

I am not alone

They live outside these walls,

My supporters, my family,

 

Love

 

They are trapped with me

In the cold

Black bars of this cage

 

Denial lurks

In the heavy hearts of the state

Knowledge weighs them down

Like an anchor they refuse to pull up

 

The ship is still

Progress halted

 

One day the scales will fall

From your eyes.

You will persecute me no more

 

God sees the light in all of us

Can you see it in yourself?

I can

 

He has carved

TRUTH

JUSTICE

FORGIVE

On my heart

And I live

For him

 

I will not give up

I cannot give up

 

From my cot I am screaming

I am calling out to you.

Can you hear me? 

 

 

 

-Kelsey Rector