Wrong Place, Wrong Guy

********************** Mario Rocha is an old friend of mine from California who was wrongfully imprisoned for over 7 years. He was stabbed several times while locked up, but left the State Penn. a seasoned poet! This one's for you Super Mario!*************** A child's life evaporated gone in a second's time arrived to a teenage party arrested for a gang banger's crime a night spent with friends fifteen, acting his age the remainder of his years left to die in a cage so many witnesses none could tell speak truth, you die and family pays the hell aboard a train that stops for no one guilt or none receiving a fair retrial has rarely been done the kid never lost the battles in his head but exercised his demons with words instead freedom taken but none could rob him of the dreams in his heart though his nemeses stopped at nothing to rip his life apart still that prison train blazed down the track tried to silence him with fifteen stab wounds to his back they failed to kill him only made him stronger but his family knew he wouldn't last much longer unknown enemies returned with more severity the second time ensuring the kid paid for someone else crime they failed again justice kept him breathing the same justice that's been absent since that fateful evening innocent he never gave up hope there were no obstacles in life for which he couldn't cope just as the belief of his strongest loved ones began to disappear his unbreakable faith became crystal clear through painstaking persistence justice was served during the fair retrial he and his family always deserved incarcerated, the boy became a man much older than years writing was his therapy protecting him from fears through all the pain self-pity never gave him a good reason to cry even though they chose him wrong place...wrong guy