More Monday Motivation

Another week, another Monday. Time to bring on Prose #mondaymotivation

Our Letters from Prison initiative has us visiting prison on a weekly basis in a bid to improve lives through the power of words. We post the work we bring back and hope some of you comment on them. That support gives the inmates confidence as they see their punishment through and helps them come out the other side motivated to live a different life.

This week’s snippets:

1. Decay thoughts

...Frustration coming out through my manifestation

I got decay thoughts

Rotting my mind

With insane talk...

2. Prison has changed me

...Since being locked up, my though patterns have evolved. I now think more before I act upon things, on impulses. And I think of the consequences of my actions....

3. Inside Out

...As the time stands almost still the only thing to pull them

Through is the power of their will...

4. The Tower

...Now re-shaped into another’s imitation brand

Caged too, and force-fed poisonous acts and words

By those pompously believing that they are lords

I visualise those fingerprints of babies on our wall...

5. Unexpected Visit

...Sally sat there and pondered the sentence carefully, Mitchell had been her rock for the past two years and now he’d gone...

Many of these fledgling poets and writers have had a troubled start in life and are bettering themselves with the tools that their incarceration provides. We hope the thought of that helps you face your Monday with a bit of positivity and some #mondaymotivation

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