It is not too long before we are locked in. It is when I am very tired from a hard workout and a long day of mentoring. You can say; it is the words between you and I now. And my thoughts say this; I know now why you hated me long ago and gave [...]

After close to 30 years caged, each night at the very last of me, I at the very end of prison’s exhaustion; where at the point my eye lids feel as heavy as closing on all of my past yesterdays….. Finally, I let them meet the bottom of my eyes… as that dark appears, a [...]

It is near lock down when the cell block light flickers and the steel doors begin to slam….. He usually comes before that. I am usually on my back reading. He eases the wide, thick, heavy, unfriendly steel door open. And always his young head eases in with the same look, ‘Am I bothering you?’ [...]