Freedom Denied
Sometime along the way,
The crossroads shifted.
Everything has changed,
As the innocence has drifted.
Vulnerable to existence,
And leaning to repentance
The maniacs in her head are just as relentless
As a bad memory just keeps pushing through her thoughts
She didn’t know how to stop it, for she was never taught
A rug on the ground, for she did not learn how to walk
The only hope she had was praying on a shamrock
She had none
She had no faith, no truth
The only virtue she claimed
Was the humanly lust
To survive this hell-hole and break from the cuffs
Dreaming for the day she can finally say “enough”
But what then?
Say she does gain the strength,
To finally rise up and break from the chains
The ropes that seized her mind
Shackles that detained her courage
If those restraints fell loose,
Will the world malnourish?
Looking back at the “thing” she had escaped,
A society falling apart
As if attached with scotch tape
Crumbling to pieces
As sanity is lost
No one seemed to mind,
How madness had become the boss
Copyright © Kenny Mcgowan | Year Posted 2015
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