The Shawshank Redemption

Using powerful imagery and metaphors—like rivers, chess, and opera—the poem highlights the inner strength and solace found in friendship and small acts of defiance against despair.

About Poem

Within the walls that rise to blot the sky,
A river runs, unseen yet deep and wide,
Its currents carved by years of silent cry,
By dreams deferred, and hope that will not die.

Here, Red and Andy, bound by fate's own hand,
Find solace in the shadows of despair,

Their friendship blossoming in barren land,
A testament to the strength found in care.

Beyond the bars where innocence is tried,
The chessboard waits, each move a day reclaimed,
And books build windows in the walls they bide,
While notes of opera rain, unchained, untamed.
For in the darkest depths of Shawshank's night,
A man can crawl through filth and reach the light.