Corrections Department

They are the most Smoothly ungracious Thief of time Those gray walls That steal the Only thing that I have left How long to go To hold on the longing And how many times Can the song bird In my chest Forget to sing And still be there To see again the Yellow of dawn Brown uniforms, and blue shirts Blue suits, and brown days The thinnest slice Of fate separates Us from you God I hope I come back soon To the land of life Before the color runs From my veins Into the dust of the Exercise yard Green dresses and blue skies Blue moods and green fields You all wait for me Like an itch Lying face down In a pool of memories Trying not to drown Heartaches were full When my pockets were empty Everyone was talking at me And I was trying not to listen All the while spending Easy money trying to be What I was not Hell, I only wanted To be just like you And now those grays walls Are my now secret friend And your unknowing bitter enemy Your pockets are empty And my belly is full With all that It cost you to steal from me The heartaches that chase Us all from under Those gray skies Lives on and waits There in those Same streets for you Look closely for it It lives close to the ground Underneath your quiet mind Is a sound that echoes in Your footsteps Is how I talk to you When you are there And I am here But you can’t step over it No more than I can step over these walls Your time waits Somewhere for you