The Benediction For The Detained

By Thy-Justice A Lumen

She would pray for all of day

For change for those detained,

Across earths way, and across the UK

?And in the way she would pray for all of day

That change would help and surely stay

For when it stayed, none had they paid

For their pain and suffering

The sufferings felt by those detained

Those in fear, those whom are pained

Those that feel heavy

Those that feel ashamed

For when they know God’s love is there

Only then do they know of care

Care they wish they could receive

If only, in all of their dreams

For dreams are broken

When systems are broken

And all of their words

Are left unspoken

Never to be heard , never again

What was this lord, was this pain

I’d never wish it to ever, return again

For in their shame, was their gain

Of souls and of hearts

When the  new mental health act spoke, No more would we lose our hope

Hopes of a better start, not one from far apart, One that comes from the heart

For when souls learned to dance,

And hearts sung from the lung

That’s when they really can dance that chance

Then the detaineds footsteps, The restrained ones

The ones on the floor, Like never before

Never again, can they do this, 

not no more, not like this

For when the system gets it right

Our lights, will light, light so bright

For every day and every night, it wont be such a fight

In a place we can be free, free as you, not as me

Because the Reform can’t you see, Needs to be rolled out

URGENTLY

Thy-Justice A Lumen Biography
____________________________________________________________________________________________

Thy-Justice A Lumen is a UK-based writer and lived-experience advocate. Her work explores mental health, detention, faith, and systemic justice, drawing on personal experience of psychiatric care and recovery. She writes to give voice to those whose experiences are often silenced, and to support compassionate reform within mental health systems.