Marcus, 33
Incarcerated: 6 years
Housed: San Quentin
Completely Incomplete
There is pain beyond the mirror to my soul
This pain has many faces
The incompleteness I feel stages a bloody battle with my strength
Its draining my sense of being
Pushing on my sanity
My God my God the calamity
Of my inner world
Utterly useless
This pain has many faces
The smashing of the glass
The tears stinging like shards
Pieces of me out of place
A puzzle missing pieces
A pain that never ceases
A cry that never listens
A love now missing
This pain has many faces
The thirst for her embrace
The want for just a trace of you
Are you still there?
I won’t let go of her hand
But the water whisks me away
Drowning
This pain has many faces
I miss my Mommy.
M.O.