by Aaron Legrand I wrote my first poem in 1996. I was laying down and decided to write my first poem. I was incarcerated at this time, I was in Elmira Correctional Facility. I was feeling hopeless at that time, I never saw myself getting out. I just started writing and writing. I started to notarize my poems and I wrote more and more poetry. I wrote about 300 something poems and made some of them into songs. Writing those poems gave me guidance and hope. When I started writin