It holds to bars

 

Peering out

 

Darkness interned

 

Will not release

 

 Stubborn refusal

 

Insists on being messenger

 

eeking out existence

 

In tiny cell

 

robust humming beating

 

360 degrees in every direction

 

love snuck in

 

allowed to stay

 

except the corner cell

 

a prisoner remains

 

in solitary confinement

 

dark, persistent, unfed, unkempt,

 

showing always how bright love doth shine

 

by it’s darkness untouched

 

coal black chamber in the heart

 

prisoner #129

 

lifer?

 

 

(photo by Jailbird Creations).