A Vision
By Jesus Manuel Torres
I have a vision as I continue to walk this road of life
A vision where I am no longer bonded in chains
and paying for my wrong decisions with the days of my life
I have a vision that comes with hope
That I will someday give up this veil and cloak
And no longer feel as if I will be here until I croak
I have a vision to have a good breath of fresh air, explore society
and just be there with the ones who love me and show me care
I have a vision that has a good explanation of a second chance with change
And No More Death By Incarceration.
Redemption From Ice
By Jesus Manuel Torres
I know I evaded my home and came into your nation
To find civility and peace
But the impunity I have went through was too much to beseech
As I thought by residing in your nation
I would be treated fair
Now u want to seize me and send me back to injustice
As if u do not care
Now I roam your nation to duck and hide Lost with my feelings
As I still continue to hold on to my own self pride
Of not returning to a country where no one feels alive
So when u reach to take hold of me
To show me your Ice If I try to run and escape
Please Do Not Take My Life!
Hopeful Hope
By Jesus Manuel Torres
Perhaps for the moment there is hope for despair
And maybe just maybe someone will find a heart to care
As I and many are harbored in an atmosphere of confusion and disarray
Living in an overcast of misery day after day Immured in a placement
Where the displaced shall go
All for the decentralized life of control
Who can we confide in to help release these manacles that keep us constrained?
And when we find joy away from all this pain?
That comes without rainbows
But only teardrops that continue to fall like the rain.
Redemption From an Execution
By Jesus Torres
Condemned to a place without a windowless view Isolated from society, freedom and the ones I love
Feeling the atmosphere of despair, fear and pain continue to race through my veins and flesh
As the thought of dying lingers within me every second, minute and hour that goes by
Trying to consume some air
But the experience makes it so hard to breathe Hoping for redemption or mercy from only one person who can decide
Will I be executed?
Or will I die?
Is the one thought I have left
Can there ever be another chance for me?
Or will I travel along with the time of death racing with me Just to feel freedom once again
The seconds keep ticking
And all I could think of how in the world did it come to this!
With just a thought of a life I will truly miss
And Silent thoughts left in my mind Just Minutes Before Six.
Transformation
By Jesus Torres
Why does the vitality of life come with so much adversity one must face who can break the contempt of disparity amongst all human beings and take away the fears of a broken life When can we live in an assertive culture without opposition one could never resist
Can we ever defuse hate and stop living undivided amongst each other where does the juncture of our declaration truly exist As many are craven hearted living in a defective nature of life that come with disagreements, tears and lost hope As we face the rapture of living with a new American Life.
Scorn to a Thorn
By Jesus Manuel Torres
I have a recollection of when I first
got entangled in your threads
my heart was torn but yours
was filled with scorn and hatred
for the wrong decisions I have made
as my rose petals of life diminished
my thorns were left for you to punish
and place into a new atmosphere to
teach me how to recondition my faults
as I was labeled as a menace
and threat to your realm of loving
in a constitutional stance you became
a scorn to a thorn the moment your
system chose to place me in exile
until I have served my time
that was taken by you
The gravity and magnitude
of this gesture can never be
dismissed for I will be forever
compromised to be your internee
who was sentenced to a penitence
of time.
Second Chance
By Jesus Manuel Torres
You have been the arbitrator of my life
and a placate to cease and deter me
from committing the same actions
that led me to face you
Your reasoning became the deciding factor
of my captivity and the judgement
I would receive for I was the
curator who became the cornerstone
of my deeds and actions
I decided to perform
The background of my life was adverse
with disregard as I once was neglected
as an adolescent and my mindset
became distorted into a psychosis
that at the time couldn’t neutralize
itself
And today I do understand that
the culpability falls on me
as I have felt the magnitude of
what it takes to compensate a sentence
with the days of my life
But I have serene hope
that someday people like me
can earn a second chance with life
and enjoy my independence and
freedom once again
Independence and Hidden Treasure
By Jesus Manuel Torres
All I want is my independence
But the discipline and the chastisement
Is all you want from me.
Must I continue to babble about this
issue or must we conclude
that your systematic structure is
designed to break the core of
my soul
But I am a gem and profound
to be a hidden treasure
who is ready to expose
your justifications and bring clarity
to what you expect of me
as these manacles and irons
cannot restrain me no longer
Independence will be earned
and a chance for change
will modify itself into
a new chant for freedom.
Political Transparency
By Jesus Manuel Torres
Look at all these changes of life we must view
From political violence and bullets
That are killing more than a few
To citizens being incarcerated to life in a cage
To watch America continue to have an abundance of rage
And overturning case law like Roe vs. Wade
Where are we heading, what’s to be next?
Is life in America becoming a threat?
The laws keep changing but where do we stand?
And when will we be able to vote and change the laws
Placed for America’s land?
Is everything just a Republican and Democratic view?
And how long must Congress continue to control
Everything we do?
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