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Poetry

‘God, I Am Deeply Sorry’: A Poem for the Prisoners We’ve Lost

By

Triste

Triste writes from a prison in QLD.

Nader Ayman via Unsplash

To all the prisoners

who have ever spent time away

from the ones they love.

To all the prisoners we have lost

to a system, past,

present and future.

To all

the angry and unheard

whom it broke,

and spat out.

To all the ailments that have

waged unchecked,

while we forgot to eat.

To the person who

has no idea what it’s like to live

as an alleged offender,

to God,

I am deeply sorry.

To all the prisoners

who have ever spent time away

from the ones they love.

To all the prisoners we have lost

to a system, past,

present and future.

To all

the angry and unheard

whom it broke,

and spat out.

To all the ailments that have

waged unchecked,

while we forgot to eat.

To the person who

has no idea what it’s like to live

as an alleged offender,

to God,

I am deeply sorry.

This
piece
was originally printed in the
June 2026
edition of About Time.
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