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Hope
Raymond White
Hope for most of us stretches millions and millions of miles away. We become trapped inside a closed cell of fear and guilt, a bitter solitude. Hope is that thing where you can picture it’s… Full Transcript
Dear Lord Jesus
Raymond White
Banished away from freedom, from bars to race chain shackles, my feet plastered onto a land of shadows. Straddling inside a grieving landscape built with metal and stone, my heart colds, spiritually devastated. I look… Full Transcript
As Long As I Live To Love
Raymond White
It’s crazy how certain types of human calamity are right now being set right in front of us. Knowing that someday we as living beings will be put back down to the low surface of… Full Transcript
Invisible To A World
Raymond White
Raymond White The title to this poem is called “Invisible to a World.” I have been invisible to a world for so long. Am I even still considered a human being? The sun, moon, stars,… Full Transcript
My Soul A Serene River
Raymond White
For many years encaged inside a dark and violent world, I have realized that time is precious and life is not guaranteed. And in relevance to living inside this conscious nightmare, I have found that… Full Transcript
When The Winds Blow
Raymond White
Each day in prison, my eyes pour repeated patterns of silent loneliness, spewing oceans into many years full of pain and sadness. Behind a captive window, I watch the winds blow north across the peaks… Full Transcript
This Cell
Raymond White
This cell is a cold box of depression and seclusion. Each second I breathe in it’s still air. I feel like anger and distress has conquered me. I’m at rare and solo frequency regarding the… Full Transcript
Damaged Youth
Raymond White
For 20 years since the age of 16, I have subjected myself to a playful and inhumane environment for chaos, pain and distress and anger has been filtered within me. I have voluntarily stranded myself… Full Transcript
Mental Health Wellness
On Prison Abolition
Raymond White
Prison abolition is a brilliant way to convert strategy to utilize methods that permanently break down the ineffectiveness of prison production that’s rampant throughout all the U. S., but mostly prisons are vastly constructed in… Full Transcript
The title to the piece is called, “Dark Eternal” and it goes like this: I couldn’t tell the difference between pain and suffering, or dislike for able and settled. I couldn’t separate my body from… Full Transcript