Withheld Ambition is a book of therapeutic journaled poetry about the journey of a 19 year old facing the responsibility of making a 60-year prison sentence kind-of-choice. The poetry illustrates the author's struggle to mature into a responsible adult in a world that offers few resources or tools to help him become a man. Especially, when no one believes he can, but where his survival and sanity actually depend on it. Mass incarceration has been the solution for so long to the problems of a lost nation. America’s prisons house a hidden population who have silent voices, lots of time, and minimal and deficient options to help them learn and develop.Insert yourself into a world that is so easy to dismiss, yet, hard to forget after you’ve been there for just one second. You’ll learn that time never stops no matter where you are on the planet. However, it does feel like it moves slower when you’ve lived in a space the size of a mop closet for over 20 years. Ask yourself this question: How much time do you unconsciously waste and are you withholding your own ambition