We are on a Journey

This picture I am going to paint

it is a masterpiece of art

You don't want to miss it

I suggest you take it to heart

This picture I am going to paint

It can only be sent or heard

So please open your eyes and ears

To see and hear every word

The colors I will use to paint

Are men's thoughts, feelings, and behavior

My canvas is a prison day room

Where men wear costumes of exaggerated and aggressive behavior

These mental chains of our minds are a learned Identity

They entangle us

Keep men like us from being the men we are supposed to be

One chain is a social indifference

The other chain is a complex mental identity

But it's not so simple

For years we have lived with a distorted, unhealthy cognition

A flawed thought process

lack of recognition

Misinformation PLUS misapplication

equals a cycle of a criminal lifestyle and self-destructive behavior

It was a messed-up situation

Sitting around prison day rooms every day, unaware of who we are or the potential of what we could become

Our truth had been buried beneath a bunch of well-dressed lies

We are wounded

Wounded with shame

Wounded from rejection

Designing any kind of acceptance

I call these wounds invisible scars

These scars can't be healed by Neosporin and stitches

Our healing has been found through Cognitive Life Skills

We are on a healthy cognitive mission.

We are on a journey now!!

Our journey is to bring life to our cycle of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Living a lifestyle rippled with favor and socially correct behaviors

Living cognitive life skills with ethics, morals, and values as law-abiding citizens, individuals, and families

We all benefit

Where positive change can be sustained

Living a life responsibly will be fulfilled

We are on a journey now!

Awareness is holding us liable.

For this healthy coded revival

It is the hottest recital

For empowering survival

Cognitive Life Skills

Have become our cognitive swords challenging negative thoughts and behaviors, of course

And if we have to take the underground railroad

It will not only free our minds and deliver us

But so much more

We are on a journey now

We are no longer self-destructive

Changing old filters with positive self-talk and awareness

Can you imagine what this picture will look like?

Living in prison as a citizen and making a positive difference encourages other men so they, too, can make positive decisions.

We are on a journey now!!!!

Yes, I said we are on a journey now

Breathing, walking, talking the proverbial streetolgy

Cognitive Life Skills

That is knowledge way beyond college

From hieroglyphics to metaphysics

But just like ancient scrolls reveal hidden truths

Every day we are going to challenge unhealthy thoughts and feeling

So we won't have

Self-destructive behavior anymore

WE ARE ON A JOURNEY NOW