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Prison on Paper

These bars are transparent,
Yet they hold just as tight
As wrought-iron girders
Woven much like a cage.

Rough hewn from sorrows,
Forged in fear's fires;
The trap is alive
And it feeds off of rage.

This is a prison.
A jail.
Asylum.
Designed in the mind
And cast on a page.

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  1. Date: 1/22/2013 7:40:00 PM

    Hey I really loved this. Don't know if it's what you intended or not but sometimes writing onto that blank white paper what I am going through is what keeps me from the asylum