A Black Man's Burden

One man’s traumatic experience and inevitable plight of being falsely accused of a crime; then suffering consequential imprisonment. This is a brief glimpse of past encounters of Paul’s life, which was the highlight of his happiness, until the unthinkable happens, which landed him in Graterford Prison.

Explore: The riveting controversial emotional letters written from prison that conveys sentiments of struggle, love and hate. What seemed at first as an attack on women, men, and society was in reality his desire to expose man’s inhumanity to man. Witness how Paul compares his imprisonment to feeling to…
“Like a Dog Going through the K-9 Process” Find out his definition of there is …“Two Types of Men That Are Released from Prison.”
Discover how ushered in heavenly forces which provided a “Ray of Hope and Inspiration,” in a most surprising way. Epilogue: In the Cell Adjacent to Mine Dwells an Old Man. Find out of…“The Unique Role of Sergei Rachmaninoff & Ravel.” This is a lesson of how one man found peace and acquired the ability to forgive from a lonely prison cell. While the letters are authentic, this book was organized and inspired out of any human experience.
Emma C. Holmes American Author: Original from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Graduate: Widener University. ‘A Black man’s Burden,’ 2005… Revised in 2017. Received, Editor’s Choice Award in 2006 “The National Library of Poetry’ included poems: ‘Infinity,’& ‘Hurry’s Heavenly Home,’ in book form and on CD. New Book Released: The Captive-The Hologram Experience, Published in 2016. Sequel: ‘The Return of the Captive, 2017.’