{"id":455,"date":"2018-10-10T18:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/?p=455"},"modified":"2018-10-10T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:04:30","slug":"why-doesnt-the-sun-shine-on-me-collection-by-prison-poet-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2018\/10\/10\/why-doesnt-the-sun-shine-on-me-collection-by-prison-poet-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"“Why Doesn’t The Sun Shine On Me” collection by prison poet Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Why Doesn’t The Sun Shine On Me”<\/span><\/div>\n
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By: Exile<\/span><\/div>\n
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It’s a lonely day and the sun isn’t shining on me as I sit behind these bars. No one seem to have compassion or humility toward the incarcerated. So many forget about me, leaving me in this darkness that consume my presence. It seem that prison is contagious because no one wants to assist a brother in need. It’s hard to feel warmth and sun rays from this cell I call my home. As an outcast my heart is crush by I refuse to lose hope. Because whatever is waiting on me just as the sun rises the next day. Faith is in my corner, truth is guarding its place. Hope has made me face each day. I know truly someone out there wishes for me to see the sun shine. But today isn’t that day, I won’t lose hope so as this falls upon your lap, give me some thought. This is just a reminder because we move so fast and miss so much. Yes, the sun isn’t shine on me but in the future, it will be.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Can You Hear The Walls Cry”<\/span><\/div>\n
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By: Exile<\/span><\/div>\n
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Imagine you can feel the pain that comes from behind these walls. Silent are some if these walls could talk, emotions are stall. So intense is the distress that can be felt from the floors. Groans from the poor soul that has lost focus and control. Left to handle the stress which caress my heart at the door. And everyday the guards inflict more wounds to my core. Loss to this weary world, can you hear the cries from my walls. No one cares, I am a distant memory that all. So with poem I hope it open your eyes to let me in your arms.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Tru<\/span>e<\/span>st Thought”<\/span><\/div>\n
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By: Exile<\/span><\/div>\n
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My truest thought was held inside of this cell, definition of pain written on my heart scroll, silent cries emerge from my tattered tortured soul, misery invaded and stole my loved residing place, it caused my entire to suffer and ache, loved ones abandoned me when I need them most. <\/span>Envy could’ve been my company but pain was more close. Pain has truly given my life an overdose. No mercy dwells in trials and tribulations, constantly dealing with incarceration while time keeps me conseal in its shadows. Allowing me to appreciate life, love, and freedom to the fullest and also to see who really was sincere in my time of need, hated, despised neglected, mostly forgotten was things I received. With few choices and not many options, hurt encraved deep in the depths inside of me. A maze of misery with no map, guide, or light to remove this darkness I see. Long gone are the thoughts I cherish so much, in their absence is this cell which has bind so many of us.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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“In Life”<\/span><\/div>\n
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By: Exile<\/span><\/div>\n
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Some things in life can’t be tested by time\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Even inside of this cell I can speak my mind\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Because so few blossom like the fruit of earth<\/span><\/div>\n
Yet behind these bars you fail to know your worth<\/span><\/div>\n
So many left to rot on the vine. So many left to rot on the vine.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
But in their absence I call you mine.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Yes the labor of the harvest outweighs worth, because I paid attention only to lust.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
You are reason I can awake and trust<\/span><\/div>\n
Hot so your value, it exceeds degrees, even though you feel far away I feel your touch.<\/span><\/div>\n
In this life I live I only have so much.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Jungle”<\/span><\/div>\n
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By: Exile<\/span><\/div>\n
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This jungle that has me trap, with no way to escape.<\/span><\/div>\n
I am force to suffer and humble my state.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
So many hard lesson that have confused my common senses.<\/span><\/div>\n
I refuse to let these bars steal my confidence.<\/span><\/div>\n
Beyond this cell I can be a person of interest.<\/span><\/div>\n
Yet I let so many small things pull me in a ditch.<\/span><\/div>\n
Every time I seem to gain some ground a distraction causes me to relent.<\/span><\/div>\n
In this jungle call prison I have to be cautious or be forced to commit. All thru this jungle it seems I go thru stages like this. The only thing<\/span> that will bring joy is being on the other side of the fence.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Why Doesn’t The Sun Shine On Me” By: Exile It’s a lonely day and the sun isn’t shining on me as I sit behind these bars. No one seem to have compassion or humility toward the incarcerated. So many forget about me, leaving me in this darkness that consume my presence. It seem that prison … Continue reading “Why Doesn’t The Sun Shine On Me” collection by prison poet Exile<\/span> »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-from-prisoners","category-poetry","category-prison-conditions","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}