Perhaps with understanding comes the falling away of judgment. And with the falling away of judgment comes the ability to see another with a profound accuracy.
And perhaps with such an ability to see comes the opportunity to share in a wealth beyond measure.
Might such an opportunity exists between any two souls.
This is no ordinary tale of prison and the recovery of diamonds.
The Back Story. I was in Guatemala in 2007, and met Juan Carlos in a Hotel Lobby. We struck up a conversation. He had that look in his eyes. I asked what he did. He told me he worked in prisons as Director of the Penitentiary System for the Country. I said ‘no you don’t’. He said ‘yes I do’, and so I drew my camera out to search for the source of that look.
We ended up in a maximum security prison one Sunday afternoon. Set aside for gang members convicted of murder.
A man sits alone, wearing a face
tattooed with meaning
he never meant.
He cries in his cell each night,
wishing that his
very soul could be heard.
Heard without
the distortion of judgment.
one same heartbeat