Baptised in the streets, forehead anointed with gin. Redemption comes with a price and it resurrected in sin. Salvage through the pain, earth bound desired. Screaming hallelujah with my soul on fire. Blood stained sheets and your innocents gone. Bound to this world, but I’m spiritually strong. Mama […]
I’ve burned so many bridges that I’m surprised that I have anyone left. I don’t blame family members who have abandoned me, because what I have done in the past was and is unthinkable. I would like to think that the relationship I have with my family is […]
We as a people spend too much time separating ourselves, placing each other in their own little box and putting a label on it. Yes, my skin maybe different from yours, but that doesn’t make you any less mybrother nor I yours. We can spend our life time […]
For many of us change is difficult, but not impossible. We’ve been programmed since we were babies to act and think a certain way. We didn’t have a developed larynx to speak out in rebellion, so we remained silent and soaked it all in. Our first programming came […]
Forgiveness doesn’t come easy and sometimes not at all, especially for those who have been victimized beyond belief. The absence of forgiveness is suffering and we have all suffered. The loss of a loved one is by far the worse kind of suffering, or so I believe. It […]
As I sit here in the confines of this timeless chamber, I contemplate life. I wonder if The Most High is watching over me. My soul screams for nourishment, my mind thirst for passionate thought. But yet it seems that I am not capable of quenching this dehydrated […]
My name is Rodney Max Siler and I am 44 years young. I’ve been locked up since May 1995 and my next parole date is Feb. 2023. I write poetry, short stories and novellas, but mostly I write whatever inspires me. I am a practioner of Raja Yoga […]
