Brothers

by | Sep 16, 2022 | Detention Center Writing Contests, Poetry

by Hassen Hassen

Poetry, Arlington County Detention Facility/Heard/OAR writing contest, August 2022

 

How can we protect our goals;

When we are not being keepers of each other souls?

Obsessed with our past;

too blind to see our present.

Too caught up in current trash;

To understand our future’s present.

In a tureen; lost in a sea of oblivion;

looking for away out; out this morass material.

Reaching for a hand; to pull us up.

Event a rope or a ladder might make us jump.

Shedding tears of joy; and smiles of sorrow;

painfully hoping and happily despiring.

With pain so deep, like the marrow’s in our bones;

And comradery so fake, like a cartoon’s souls.

We both hungry for just a little refuge;

But, all we feed each other is plates of subterfuge.

Brainwashed to inure less;

When we are supposed to be our best.

How do we protect our goals;

When we are not keepers of each other souls?

So, place me deep, where you look within;

abyssed in your soul when you need a friend.

Place it dearly next to your heart,

But never negated when we are apart.

And even thought we have different mothers;

That doesn’t mean we can’t be prison brothers.

Dom_Free/Free_Dom King-Dom/Dom/King

by | Sep 16, 2022 | Detention Center Writing Contests, Poetry

by Christ Joshua M. Fletcher

Poetry, Arlington County Detention Facility/Heard/OAR writing contest, August 2022

 

11-B

Mental Health Lied

D. H. S

Evil igh atan

Q Asked have she called my family? Hel-Nawh Requested to communicate/

Lack of honesty contact.

Time frame is lest then #5-10 mins.

They’re response is always’s:

OK-, Alright; Yeah; or nobodie answered;

Lies!

I will try still lying! ORE ye know!

Never a correct complete answer!

Right: Some-thing (Left) wrong w/that answer

bcuz (No-thing’s) nothing is

OK, or right, or alright (which is changing

the chain of correct verbal communiteation

left wrong!….

Faith is Key (with artwork)

by | Sep 16, 2022 | Detention Center Writing Contests, Poetry

by AP22

Poetry, Arlington County Detention Facility/Heard/OAR writing contest, August 2022

 

Hand in hand,

Side by Side;

GOD is beginning to change the tide.

So just hold on,

don’t let go;

may GOD let it be so!

Put GOD FIRST,

We have work to do,

And I onlhy want to;

Do it with you…

Let GOD in, your spirit

To HIM entrust;

And HE promises to

Lead us through:

The rest

Of this mess;

Into LOVE, Joy, peace

And FREEDOM

To do HIS work

And to live our BEST…

Life…

Im listening GOD,

You know ALL of my cares;

All of my Fears.

Even if I want to

keep them hidden;

but then it seems like I’m

put on the bench just

sitten…

Out of the game of life,

until I acknowledge,

Theres nothing GOD don’t already know;

So why put on a show?

We need to be completely real;

with the MAKER of the universe,

So we can learn in life how to deal!

The tides are changing; a new

Life is coming out of all this rearranging

Our GOD just keeps in reassuring without

blame; with HIM our lives will never

be the same…

JESUS showed HIMSELF to me;

And let me know, FAITH IS THE KEY!

I’ll never forget that day;

Or all HIS HEART has to say!

I believe, in faith: TO LOVE GOD 1st;

HE keeps us safe,

We’ve already been through the worst…

And I can see, just up ahead, is our victory!