George Silky Spann

Poetic Justice George Silky Spann

Imagine being locked in your bathroom for 30 days. No control of the heat nor air, no windows, bathtub or any of the things you'd associate with a typical bathroom. All you have is your sink, the toilet, and a slab of concrete. On top of that slab is a "mattress" as thin as a ream of typing paper and just as hard. Now Imagine having a pen and a few scraps of paper that are actually old envelopes opened up. What would you do? Sleep, think, cry, laugh, YELL? Well, I did all those things. But I also wrote... Sentenced to 30 years in State Prison at the age of 19, for armed robbery and shooting a police officer, my life had taken a turn for the worst. Freedom had become a thing of the past, and controlled movement became the norm. It was during this dark comma (not period) in my life that I found the light that would illuminate my cell and free me long before I was released from prison. It was during this time that I found my voice and was granted the justice I longed for... Poetic Justice. The poems within this volume are of an early nature or shall I say during the juvenile years of my prison sentence. Poems of hurt and hope, pain and promise, love, and loss create somewhat of a journey for the reader to experience in real time. Although each is distinct and stands firmly on its own, collectively my poems tell the story of a seemingly lost soul attempting to find itself.