Changing Lives

Changing our world – heart by heart …………..

LifeLines

Recently, we have been marking LifeLines’ 25th anniversary. Over that time we have put over 5,000 people in this country in touch with condemned men and women.

The very first prisoner with whom I corresponded, in 1987, was a man in Mississippi called John Irving. His death sentence was later overturned and he was eventually released after 31 years in incarceration. For our conference last October, marking the anniversary, John sent the following message: ‘There are not very many people about whom I can say, “their presence and activity in my life, preserved my humanity and made my life better because they passed through it”. I can say this about those members of LifeLines who corresponded with me for most of the years that I was on the Row. LifeLines broke the isolation the government kept our humanity in. I and a number of others on death row, who didn’t…

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Two Ghosts

We are all lost children searching for our true selves. None of us should judge how another may be led to start that journey.

A Free Mind

Non material but yet very much real. Lurking within the chambers and casting splendid tangled shadows. You see the ghost of my past; it’s tied to the ghost of my future. The ghost of my present is caught between the two. They’re continually shifting, like tectonic plates, pushing, grinding, burning hot from the friction. Partially blinded, no wholly blinded to their own agenda. The seduction is slowly grinding me away.

I labor to breathe as the heat and constriction is so immense. The inferno engulfs my third eye completely, obscuring my vision. Slowly my essence is beginning to liquefy and flow with no dykes to contain and to guide them. What is and was me are now flowing into oblivion.

My conscience comes alive as my body finds some semblance of my former control. Rising with a start like a familiar biblical tale, my body trembles with uncertainty. At last…

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