This is such an amazing and important poem Sam!! Knowing that the prison system was the initial inspiration when you read the prompt makes me feel grateful, so many are forgotten once they are behind bars. Out of sight, out of mind...
There's some admission of being less, just by being given the title "prisoner". Not many feel bad for a prisoner, even though we all know of corruption and the human tendency to be unfair at times. It's hard to define what is just, but sometimes it is cut and dry. Forced solidary is torture, and you wrote that so vividly!
Thank you so much for sharing this!
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