"My Soul Speaks!"
by: Ellis R. Douglas

Do my tears reflect my being of a weak kind? Am I perceived by what others believe me to be?

Why? I try to reach forward for a love I've never found; must I drown to surround myself with the spirits that's escaped bondage by sacrifice?

Does a man equate a shell of frail veneerity, where within he's crying for support of productive energy but remains afraid to be rejected as the child without a mother or fathers;

Farther within my maze I gaze at possibilities in the love shared by others.

I watch the children directed and nurtured by fathers & mothers; relationships of significance shared by lovers, and imagine what pleasure is held in being held & encouraged to live out your dreams;

Am I wrong for the conditioning of what it is to be superficially strong?

Evasive of what my heart holds my passion is stored for reasons of my own - Am I selfish? Or selfless where ink spills my fluid thoughts as blood on soil during a war - yes a war with self to advance as a baby crawling to take steps.

I gradually learn from the qualities of existence; this is a therapy I once resisted.

I'm blessed to see others smile & spirits uplifted - Am I gifted? If so graces to God!

Meet Author Ellis R. Douglas

 
 
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