– HOOD FATHER UNJUST –
I have been convicted for the most heinous crime against society, being black, poor, and fathering my child with a woman of no compensation for the land, honor, and dignity of fathers.
Since my conviction, I’ve had time to think about how I ended up in jail for loving my daughter, but not wealthy enough to unfix the mother. I did not foresee the intervention of the beast, brought down with a decisive blow against all that I believe in and hold dear to my heart. I’ve been misread and set up by the establishment that I held dear and killed for. I have been treated as though I am less than human and a menace to society. My appeal falls upon deaf ears and hardened hands. Yet, I hold myself to keep faith, not only in God, but in my fellow men as well as one woman. I sit and look around me and ask myself, Do I belong here? She afflicts the hands I hold with a glance of another man trying to stifle fear in another. I truly realized I do not, yet I claim as I move amongst them with no fear, nor aggression from others, but in that I realize I am still and always will be a true man, and he walks with me.
Aaron
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