The days will start to get longer now. I'm looking forward to more light. I spent Winter Solstice yesterday "in the dumps"! I guess it was a new moon which may have intensified the energy. But today started out happy enough and then...at 4PM, the rug was pulled out from under my feet! A new friend was suddenly transferred to another jail! He had no idea where or why. He's a sensitive man who loves words, prose and poetry...and man, does he love his family...and they love him. I was counting on more substantive conversations. He has read Rilke, Rumi and Tagore. He thinks. He openly emoted in "the tank" and was not ashamed of his tears. He once told me that letting others see him weep might let them see their own humanity. This haiku is for him...and for them: Fragile, sensitive Rabindranath the poet, Mankind can be saved. He was here for lunch and gone before dinner - POOF! Once again,, something "good" is taken from me. But what was I thinking. This is not summer camp, it's JAIL! It's punishment! I will be hard-pressed to attempt making another friend in here.
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