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A CONVICT'S CRY OF DESPAIR

April 9, 2013
By Shards_of_my_soul GOLD, BHUBANESWAR, Other
Shards_of_my_soul GOLD, BHUBANESWAR, Other
17 articles 15 photos 68 comments

Favorite Quote:
if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you certainly don't deserve at my best!

it is the events that shape our lives,
but it is the choices we make that define us...

life is not about finding yourself,
life is about creating yourself


Pupils contracted,
Fear in eyes,
Satan standing in front of me,
Ignoring my cries...

Officers interrogating me
For days and days,
All despising me
For my criminal ways…

Cramped in a cell,
Waiting for freedom
Without knowing
If it will ever come…

People guarding me
With many a gun,
Leaving no chance
For me to have fun…

Food is cold
With no taste at all,
Eating with strangers
In a murky hall…

Spending days and nights
To figure out
Whether to cry for mercy,
Or listen to officers’ shout…

Leaving me vulnerable
In the freezing cold,
I cry silently,
Hoping, my petition will withhold…

Then the day comes,
When judgement is announced,
I find myself quite calm
But, with all my hopes denounced…


Announced guilty,
Execution declared,
I’m plunged into darkness
Suddenly feeling scared…


What is this life
Of violence, hatred and pain…
For all I got
Was looks of loath and disdain…

How I wish fervently
That my life, I counld rewind…
Then I could leave
All my sins behind…

But now, here I am,
Waiting in my cell, for the final call
Now knowing what it is like
When the end befalls…



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on May. 29 2013 at 1:13 am
Shards_of_my_soul GOLD, BHUBANESWAR, Other
17 articles 15 photos 68 comments

Favorite Quote:
if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you certainly don't deserve at my best!

it is the events that shape our lives,
but it is the choices we make that define us...

life is not about finding yourself,
life is about creating yourself

thanks a lot bhaina!!!! and congrats, u r already a vip!!!!

Abhineet said...
on May. 28 2013 at 2:11 am
Abhineet, Jeypore, Odisha, Other
0 articles 10 photos 2 comments
this is great i'm really amazed

on May. 25 2013 at 3:07 am
Shards_of_my_soul GOLD, BHUBANESWAR, Other
17 articles 15 photos 68 comments

Favorite Quote:
if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you certainly don't deserve at my best!

it is the events that shape our lives,
but it is the choices we make that define us...

life is not about finding yourself,
life is about creating yourself

thanks krasota...actually in nat geo...i saw the "Inside" serial, where that day they had showed the world's most dangerous jails...the facs of the criminals somehow influenced me so much that i just wrote this poem.....

on May. 16 2013 at 5:48 pm
Carpe-Caffeam GOLD, No Where, Florida
10 articles 0 photos 444 comments

Favorite Quote:
“If it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.” –David Letterman

I love this! :D I would've never thought to write a poem from a convict's point of view. Great job!

xo_zozo GOLD said...
on May. 7 2013 at 11:24 am
xo_zozo GOLD, Rochester, Vermont
13 articles 2 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
--Dr. Seuss

This is really great!!!!!!! I love it so much!!!!!! :)

on May. 7 2013 at 1:52 am
Shards_of_my_soul GOLD, BHUBANESWAR, Other
17 articles 15 photos 68 comments

Favorite Quote:
if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you certainly don't deserve at my best!

it is the events that shape our lives,
but it is the choices we make that define us...

life is not about finding yourself,
life is about creating yourself

thanks so much rabaab aka scribble!!! m sorry i didnt reply earlier as i had no idea where to look for the comments... thanks a lot!!!!

on May. 2 2013 at 3:27 am
Scribbleaway. BRONZE, Karachi, Other
4 articles 0 photos 41 comments

Favorite Quote:
Paper is more patient then people. Anne Frank
“It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
“Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.”
“Fill your paper with the breathings of you
“Tears are words that need to be written.”

WOW. <3 You have talent.