Imprisoned
My eagle eyes are wide opened yet can't a thing see.
So cold and frozen I feel,his hands so icy and nothing
but thick dangerous darkness around me.
And when now I could see,He showed me my new abode
as he held to this new world wherein I find myself its huge and only key.
So loud I scream at the passerby who don't even seem to exist.
Welcome,a familiar voice whispered,though so happy to be rejoined
with my long passed parents but yet so hard this belief I tried to resist.
From where we stood,I seem to see everything outside this strange world,and I watch
helplessly people fall into traps and obviously know I who's turn it is on my family list.
Where am I oh prison warden?
In and out of my house people clothed in black,and white are greeting.
As light as a feather I felt.
I knew I wasn't ready yet you've showed me adverse cruelty I solemnly knelt.
Akosua,why are you soaked in tears?I shouted but she never heard.
Like the waterfalls in the high mountains my son shouts "daddy why so early?"
you got all my dreams shattered.
So hard I tried to disclose to my son all my hidden treasures.
But futility my effort proves as Death dangles this very key and grinned.
My transition papers he has already signed.
Here I came to understand I've been sentenced for a lifetime.
And realized all others clothed in same prison uniform a
white linen as I,irrespective of our this committed crime.
Copyright © Seth Agyei Asamoah | Year Posted 2013
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