By Marino Leyba
From PHN Issue 52, Sring 2023
Justice!
Just us!
Even when we are innocent they are always quick to try and bust us.
Turn up or turn out, truth out, the life we live I am not proud to talk about. Imagine being locked up and there is no way of walking out
I am barely walking now…
Can you feel the chains?
Can you feel the change?
Prison life is so strange…
We are all just living inside of a cell.
We are not living well.
How are we supposed to excel?
There is no way of really living well!
You’ve heard of heaven on earth, well this place is hell!
Medical barely exists!
“Oh you are bleeding to death here is a tylenol, hope it helps with your wrist!”
All day, all we hear is noise and violence, and then they wonder why we lose our minds and pray for a moment of silence.
My eyelids hurt from seeing the same thing, and when I close my eyes at night to dream it’s always the same thing!
“Slavery does not exist?”
“Mass incarceration is it!”
Why do you think so many American families are broken and left struggling?
The system is broken and the titles they are always juggling.
Why do the police love to misuse their power and make statements that are false, why do they deceive and utter untruths?
Why do they falsify, mislead, misinform, bear false witness, fiction, lies, myths, deception, slander—then resign and justify?
Why do police always want us all locked up or they want us to die on the inside?
Kickbacks from how many people they lock up and for how many years they do.
They don’t care about any of our families or any of our tears, it’s true!
As a matter of fact, they don’t even care about you!
t’s really quite funny, to them it’s a job and it’s all about money, and their fancy trips.
“Taze a suspect and lock him up and forget about him!”
They say we are the bad guys, but they never even look in the mirror.
I bet if they did, they might see things perfectly clear.
Prisons for profit, what does it take to expose true evil?
I swear!
What does it take to stop it?
Please don’t shoot, I can’t breathe, can somebody anybody stop it!
Pop pop, then the bullets fall out of their pockets!
It’s kinda like they don’t care!
It’s kinda like they don’t care, all I ever see them do is harass people and act like they fight fair.
Cruel oppressive system, so many broken families and so many people that miss them!
Oh the injustice, yet all I ever hear them say is, “Just trust us.”
The inhumanity.
14 years means 14 scars.
Who can relate to a life behind bars?
A life like ours…
This is what a place like this will do to you.
I apologize, I never meant to bring the cold hard truth to you.
Cruel oppressive system.
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