A Poem

When a Book Changes Your Life

A New Perspective

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I have never thought about life this way

until words from the book hit me like lightning,

brightly displaying a new perspective,

where the darkness in thoughts must shy away.

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A gentleman was wrongly jailed.

At the end of a day

where humiliation and torture rested,

greater pain pounded on him

the moment he thought of his family.

**

Prison walls were cold,

but worse is injustice.

Uncleaned toilets were stinky,

but worse is ignorance.

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I started to see my cell,

one walled with dark and evil forces,

a part comes from within,

a part comes from the world.

**

We are all jailed,

as cold bars put up by hate and pride,

as distance created by misunderstanding