The Tides Need Change
By Michael
I wonder lonely as a man,
Released from prison once again,
Dysfunctional and lost in time,
Where to go, where to find,
The IPS* has failed once more,
Releasing a trauma filled dysfunctional time bomb,
Looking at the lads run around the streets,
Trying to score and trying to get sorted,
Zombie apocalypse the crack is here,
Anything goes when the pipe is clear,
Sorry boys, but I'm clean now,
I hope to see you get here too.
Recidivism, drugs and crime for sure,
Then there's something else designed to get you back inside the door,
No help, no more, nobody cares,
Let's work to fix the ones who try to help,
But then the boxes start to tick,
Garda vetting, doors shut quick,
Ostracised from society,
Labelled for life,
Moulded by the ones that justify,
Demonised containment,
Lies galore,
Isaiah 42 there's so much more,
Verse 22 read it again,
Words from the prophet spoken again,
Conviction from the Savior what will you do,
You'd think that you'd be willing,
So now it's on you,
Life is about choices made, direction too!
The shepherd is replaced by the greed of the fruit,
Mail not delivered,
Visits refused,
Inmates assaulted,
Education refused,
No manpower,
Locked down today coz a young mental patient had an episode again,
Suicide,
Regular questions arise what they say about the inmates’ demise,
Misinformation,
Silence the noise,
When corruption penetrates the hearts of man,
Reason is replaced by the blind state clan,
The web of deceit is coming undone,
What have we done to our fellow man,
Love is censored, it's kept within.
The power of the spirit makes the flesh tremble,
Transparency required come what may,
The IPS on the ropes instead,
They hide behind legislation,
They won't answer to any man,
So, we force their hand with our organisation,
We snap at their heels every day,
Until they are held accountable,
For the degradation they created in estates,
For the trauma inflicted on some and deaths,
And the horrible things that them animals done,
In truth and solidarity we prevail,
‘Till the prisoners walk free from the prison gates,
And no, my abolitionist friends we won't stop there,
We aim to turn the tables on the corrupted state,
The criminal justice system has come undone,
It's broken and it's evil and it must be destroyed.
*IPS stands for Irish Prison Service
Michael is an…
IPAN member who has previously spent time in Irish prisons.
