The Worst Prison

Come and see the most oppressive place...
It has no respect for any race...
Here you are underfed
Here you are overcrowded
The walls are bare and the bunks are hard.

This prison is so oppressive...
Its truly overcrowded...
In this prison, no one leaves
From here there is no escape
No chance of parole or release.

Once here, life means life...
Overcrowded and under provisioned...
Yes come and see the most oppressive place
It really has no respect of race.

See the sign above the big prison gates...
Its name so clear to see...
Worse than Dartmoor, Alcatraz and SingSing
Worse than Devil's Island...

Four letters spell this prison's name:
W-A-N-T...

The prison of want.

By
Paul "Protector" ex prisoner 
February 2015

Open Hearted Church

The ever open door

Now firmly closed

Against the rain, against the cold

Ornate, foreboding and set in stone

The gateway to safety,

Beautifully carved

Pleasing to the eye

But heavily barred.

There she lays

On the floor

Just skin and bone

Out in the rain
Exposed to the cold

Giving up hope and left all alone

At the gateway to safety,

Beautifully carved

Pleasing to the eye

But heavily barred.

Is there nothing more

Beyond that door

Than the priest with his crimson and gold?

What about sharing

What about the poor?

At the gateway to safety,

Beautifully carved

Pleasing to the eye

But heavily barred.

That's what we're here for

For those who roam

Who lay in the rain and the freezing cold

They need a welcome

And they need a home

Not a gateway to safety, that's beautifully carved...

But a church that will love and open its heart.

Joe Morriss

January 2010

Silver Cloud

Bright sunlight

Cloud and sunlight

Slate grey water sparkles bright

Silver sunlight

Shines through grey cloud

Full of snow

Topped with blue and white

Joe Morriss

February 2012