Prison cells
Full of moving heaving bodies
Straps on ankles chains on hands
Festive season greetings
To solitary souls
Grappling in the blank darkness.

Prison smells
Fill the head the mind the body
Memories scratched into the years
Say Merry Christmas
To those tortured
Bruised and mutilated prisoner.

Prison hells
Fill me with revulsion
Cruelty beyond imagining or reason
My personal greeting 
To those imprisoned
Is to the guards and officers.

Prison cells
Resounding to cries and shouts
Of those who want to get out
No more Christmases
In a living HMP hell
Only pity guilt and resignation.

Prison bells
Remind us all of the discomforts there
Bare bed bare walls bare faces bare
My Christmas message
Treat them with dignity
Leave off your Middles Ages cruelty.