Power Grows with Numbers

     A worthy organization in Washington, DC in which to get involved is FREE MINDS BOOK CLUB (https://freemindsbookclub.org/about-us/) -- an organization that collects books and provides reading opportunities for incarcerated individuals AND ALSO offers online presentations of poems (https://freemindsbookclub.org/poems/) for volunteers to read and offer comments.  I encourage you to participate -- participants need not be poets, simply interested readers!

     Here are the opening lines of one of the poems I found at the Free Minds website; please visit the site to sign in and read more:

          This Pain        by RP

          It’s hard to bear.
          So sometimes I wish,
          Nobody would care.
          Then I could be free,
          To give into my deep felt despair.
          But, power grows with numbers.
          Power from love continues,   
          To pull me away from sleepy
          Depressive slumbers.
                                 The rest of "This Pain" is available here.