Sunday, 26 February 2023

A Casual Kindness by the Unbound Community with Pádraig Ó Tuama

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These are co-written poems, the Unbound Community made up of those within the criminal justice ‘system’.


They have a power coming out of the circumstance in which the writers find themselves – not sorry for themselves, but facing the wrongs they have done does not make them blind to the dysfunction of the system. Far from setting them on a path to renewal and reform it seems almost purpose designed to create a spiral of re-offending – trapped them long after imprisonment has ended.


One poem


What I Feel About What You Said About Rehabilitation


The you that I see through your words about me

exaggerates my story and it hates it.

I don’t see the you

you see in me.

I am better. I am frightened.

I am alone.


I also put tags in

“He Didn’t Show Remorse”

Prayer From A Cell

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