My harmonica smile...
Shackled, pickled and diluted identity
The devil has stole my days but I was innocent
Railroad, bed of bones, suffocating insanity
Numbers upon numbers, days are long, fingers are crippled
My harmonica weeps, all the while I have an innocent smile, deep down inside
I don't let it show, this is prison life, this is my harmonica smile
Oh Lord I can hear the sound
Oh Lord one day I'll be found
Unchain me from this land
Take me away before I drown
Chained male, dirty men in a row, red hot poker sun, face like stone
Leathered skin, some are a living sin, evil follows with a foolish grin
Barbed wire, shots fired, click it back and aim for another crossing the line
Hope for change, morning breath in my veins,
I pray to keep my faith
Oh Lord I pray
Oh Lord I pray
I see mounds in the field, just another prisoner running spree, this is not the silver screen
Bullets pierce, lost freedom skin
I can almost hear my instrument weep
I play the sound of an innocent man wanting to be free...
My harmonica weeps, all the while I have an innocent smile, deep down inside
I don't let it show this is prison life, this is my harmonica smile
My harmonica smile I keep for me
As one day I'll hear the words,
You're free....
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Comments
Another brilliant write wayne ?? love reading your poetry ?
Wow! Thanks very much James, it means a lot! ??
Wayne, I love this. Think I'll be listening to blues tonight.
Haha! Ahhh get the blues out..! Feel the stories in the sound haha, thanks very much Nigel! Very much appreciated ?
Brilliant concept Wayne! love this...so atmospheric ! great work
Lodigiana x
Wow! Thanks very much for your lovely comment lodigiana, your supportive comments are very much appreciated ??
Thanks for reading lovely people ?
Seldom speechless, it took me a minute after reading to collect my thoughts.
a great work images galore.
Schooled for 4 short years early 60’s in a small Mississippi town.
a chain gang did all our school grounds gardening and upkeep.
usually 4 to 5 men and a trustee (armed)
As a teenager I never felt sorry for them, you introduced an element not there in my childhood.
now to ponder.
thank for the read.
john
Wow! What an excellent comment! I mean the majority might be guilty but in the times I'm speaking of i think quite a number were there for another form of slavery, I might be wrong but I was going through the lines of "what if" I seem to hold a torch for that one innocent soul,
thanks again John, I'm glad I gave you thoughts to ponder ?