Play Time

By: Jennifer Zukerman

How can we look up
to a system so corrupt?
Watching former presidents
fly by, unscathed,
to give them countless tries?
Meanwhile,
they look down on the little guys?

Take it from me.
Little guy here!
The system has
blood rushing to my ears,
and fed every last fear.

Yet here stay the gears,
plotting and churning,
as I spend the darkest nights,
tossing and turning.
Justice has become jaded,
and all the gears inside
are either
burning or hated.

Jennifer Zukerman (#2080583)

Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women