I Will Just Go Poem by kelvin karani

My days in jail are over
Robbery with violence was the charge
Fifteen years of being sober
Have just ended, to hell with the judge

I hoped for a life sentence
With no parole, no nothing
I begged but he saw no sense
Homebound I am, theirs no stopping

The crime I committed was for a worthy course
One of extricating oneself from poverty and indignity
But fate and this selfish life have of course
Quashed the dreams I had, visions so great!

What dreams, visions?
Such a defeatist ideology
A sadistic escape from tribulations
A cowardly philosophy!

But, do I say
All the dirt is rightly behind me
I’m clean, purged by fifteen years in jail
With a new perspective life I now must see

I will just go
To the shanty I called home
To where I suffered so
Ho! Life is much better in prison!