Notes from Exile: God
Log/Verse: daily reflections from prison, written every morning at my bunk. Part poem, part log book.
In keeping with this week's theme of daily life in prison, the following log/verse was written during my imprisonment, recording the strange rhythms of incarceration.
GOD
is not dead
here,
not yet
anyway.
But more ritual than
doctrine.
Always a scramble for
special meal
signups,
and attendance at
service.
Christians Jews Muslims
Buddhists and one
Hindu.
No crossover or real
engagement.
More function than
fire.
And at the end of
the day,
only one God standing,
Freedom.
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