What some of our correctional officers endure while working in today’s penal facilities.

Entering the house of mad man
You never know what’s at hand
Screams and voices heard in the hall
Mad man’s curse gets us all

As I listen through the walls
Can’t resist their desperate calls
Looking through some stained glass
Remembered the site throughout the night

Sitting on an empty floor
Looking through an unseen door
Making circles in his hand
Like a child will make in sand

As I look into his eyes
I can see the pain inside
No regrets for what he’s done

Torn to pieces, torn inside
Thirty years have come and gone
There’s no healing for what he’s done.
Still a killer deep inside
As I close these doors to hell
I realize there’s much to tell

So when you lurk
These man made streets
Don’t forget the words I speak
Murder, terror, gangs and guns
Make these gates of hell undone

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Comments (7)
  • FOREVER POETRY on Feb 11, 2009

    WOW, COOL SCARY POEM. CAN’T WAIT TO READ PART 2

  • denus on Feb 15, 2009

    nice poem and the prison.

  • Lisa Clayton Williams on Feb 15, 2009

    Good one! I agree..pretty scary!

  • S A JOHNSON on Feb 18, 2009

    I can see that I will run out of words to say about what a great writer you are so I apologize right now for my repetitive comments.

  • Kate Cobb on Feb 18, 2009

    Great Job. Really puts you inside the Prison and the guards minds. Maybe do a squeal of what’s really going inside the prisoner minds?

  • Will Gray on Feb 19, 2009

    Great write! You are a courageous man!

  • MarleeKnows on Feb 25, 2009

    Dark but I like it. Kind of reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe in a weird way.

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